Clarion 1979-09-28 Vol 55 No 03

Tons of Bethel dirt, mud and silt are relocated in the
sand development project. (Photo by Dan Velie)
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Bethel's small, road bridge recently doubled in size as a result of the Rice Creek Watershed pro-ject.
(Photo by Dan Velie)
the Clarion. Vol. 55 No. 3 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Sept. 28, 1979
Crooked creek gets facelift with stones, wire
by Jay Russell
Bethel's creek is receiving a ma-jor
facelift that will include four
small waterfalls and four major
curves, Physical Plant Director
Jim Woods said last week in an in-terview.
The creek is being reconstructed
to accommodate a greater flow of
water,, Woods explained. He
stressed that development in the
outlying areas in recent years has
created a much larger flow of wa-.
ter. The original creek bed does
not have the capacity to handle
this increased flow, and the result
has been widespread erosion of
the creek's bed.
The new creek bed will have the
capacity to handle this increased
flow. Woods said that the creek's
water volume stopped increasing
because new developments in out-lying
areas can no longer cause an
increase in the volume of water
entering the creek.
Bethel's creek lies within the
Rice Creek Watershed District
and is only one of eleven other
projects planned or under con-struction
in the area. "The project
involving our creek is probably
the largest of the projects,"
Woods said.
The entire creek is being re-vamped
from its point of entry on
Bethel's campus by highway 51, to
its mouth in Lake Valentine. The
creek drops approximately 22 feet
along this 2,000 foot length. This
steep drop greatly increases the
speed of water as if flows through
the campus. The new creek will
have four drops, or small_ water-falls
that will help slow the speed
of the water.
Woods explained that the drops
will be lined with Gabions, or wire
baskets designed to hold field
stones. This will keep the bank
from washing away and will help
sift out some of the silt, but more
importantly they will slow the wa-ter's
speed.
In addition to the drops from
the pipes, the new creek will have
four other small drops, ranging in
height from one and a half to
three feet tall.
Woods also explained that the
new creek will be much straighter,
and will have only four major
curves. "this will reduce the
amount of erosion to the stream
bed and banks of the stream," he
said.
In past years, water erosion to
the creek's banks has become
more noticeable, especially on the
creek's winding curve. In addition
to bank erosion, many trees have
been undercut by the stream's cur-rent;
making their removal neces-sary.
Woods said that within the
past four years, six trees along the
creek's banks were removed.
"A few years ago we had some
heavy spring rains that caused
flooding in the creek bed,"
Woods said. "The erosion on the
creek's curves near the LRC build-ing
hecame so bad, that the shift-ing
coil began to threaten the
foundation of the building. That
was when we rip-rapped the
bank's curves with railroad ties to
stop the erosion."
The new creek bed will be rip-rapped
with field stone grouted in
cement along each of the four
curves. This will minimize the
threat of erosion.
Woods said, "The new creek
bed will be from 9 to 18 feet wide,
with the banks having a maximum
width of 50 feet at the top. The
banks will slope one foot down
for every two feet across."
The wider creek bed will allow a
larger volume of water to flow
through the creek. The new creek
bed was calculated to handle the
flow from the freak 100-year
storm, he explained.
Woods said that "the new creek
will be lined with eight inches of
crushed limestones in the creek
bed, with sod laid on the banks."
"This will look like a drastic
change from the present. creek
bed, but silt deposits and plant
growth will gradually make the
stream appear more natural."
The new creek bed will not have
negative effects on Lake Valen-tine.
Woods said it may actually
help improve the lake situation by
Belton lives
by Susan Peterson
Dodging oxcarts and elephants
was an everyday occurrence for
Don Belton, assistant professor of
social work, during his eleven-month
sabbatical in S.E. Asia.
Two of these months were spent
in Sri Lanka due to visa problems,
and the remaining months in In-dia.
Belton, now in his eighth year in
Bethel's social work department,
lived in the city of Trivandrum in
the state of Kerala, India, along
with his wife Judy and their two
children.
"We wanted our family to live
in a non-western culture," said
Belton. "It is by understanding
others that we understand our-selves,
besides, I like mucking
around in peoples' lives."
While in Trivandrum, Belton
taught a graduate course in social
work and also a began a crimin-ology
program at Loyola College,
a Jesuit school.
The Beltons chose Trivandrum
for its "typical" Indian setting.
restricting the amount of silt de-posited
in the lake.
Bethel's creek takes in water
flow from the area bounded by
highway 96, Lexington Ave.,
Hamline Ave., and the railroad
tracks that border Bethel's cam-pus.
The water that flows out of
Lake Valentine drains into Long
Lake.
Woods said, "The project has
been in the planning stages for se-
Although it is the state capital, it
resembles a big village.
Only 25 Europeans lived in the
city. The Beltons could have
opted for royal treatment, how-ever,
they chose to live a "middle
caste" lifestyle.
"Caste is connected with every-thing—
buying power, marriage,
vocations, and political parties,"
Belton said. "Poor people are
kept in their place." Most of In-dia's
people are poor; 70 per cent
of the population fall below the
U.N. poverty line.
The few rich people live on es-tates
worked by servants. One per
cent of the population controls 95
per cent of the country's wealth.
"You are important by who you
know; who your friends are," he
said.
In the state of Kerala 20 per
cent of the people are Christians.
Just as caste controls Indian so-ciety,
a parallel caste system con-trols
the Church.
Syrian Christians (those who
owe their allegiance to the Angli-can
Bishop of Syria) are consi-dered
"high caste." All others, no
yen to eight years." The project
involving Bethel's creek will cost
approximately $215,000, most of
which has been funded through a
federal grant. The remaining costs
will be paid from local funding.
Construction on the lower half
of the creek will be completed in
about three weeks, weather per-mitting.
Woods said that the up-per
sections were a little more
complicated and would probably
take a little longer to complete.
matter how long they have been
Christians will be called "con-verts."
The two groups never mix.
Belton quickly added, "Our
churches here are just as bigoted.
How many Blacks, or how many
poor people do we include in our
churches?"
The Indian people are very hos-pitable
and extremely curious.
"The hardest thing for Westerners
to adjust to is the lack of
privacy," Belton said. "Many
homes have no doors so if people
want to visit you, they'll walk
right in. If you lock your door,
they will quietly move to a win-dow
and patiently wait for you to
notice them."
Some Indians fear talking with
Americans; they understand
English but are embarrassed to
speak it with their heavy accents.
Belton was most disturbed by
the sight of many beggars. "Peo-ple
flaunt their deformities to
make money," he said. "Many
suffer grotesque deformities be-cause
of leprosy, polio, and fail-
Belton, see p. 4
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Page 2 editorial
Senate drifts from
open government
A recent decision by the Bethel student senate strikes us all too remin-niscent
of the handling of the flat-rate tuition switch of two years ago.
On Sept. 18, during the regular meeting of the student senate, the
senators defeated a motion that would have made available the minutes
of the executive board meetings. The executive board consists of Presi-dent
Steven Hoswell, Vice-president Susan Stone, Treasurer Scott Bar-suhn,
Secretary Caryl Brown and the president pro tem. They meet
weekly to discuss coming legislation to make general plans concerning
the student government.
Under the proposed legislation, the minutes of those meetings would
be published for the senate members. According to one observer the
senate seemed in favor of the proposal at the outset. After much discus-sion
and a recommendation by new Dean of Men Charlie Retts, how-ever,
the senate voted to allow the executive board this measure of
privacy.
We view this as a sad step away from open government.
Two years ago an administrative decision to abolish Bethel's per
course payment plan and to replace it with a flat-rate tuition aroused ex-tensive
anger and bitterness on the part of students, the likes of which is
not often seen at Bethel. The issue then, as it is now, was not that a
method of payment was to be changed, rather that the plan was con-ceived,
approved and implemented without the slightest input by the
student body.
The president of the student senate was informed of the plan early in
the school year, but was asked to keep the matter confidential. The stu-dent
body at large decried this form of "government," while the student
senate lost any sort of credibility.
Recent senate administrations seem to have taken strides toward a
more democratic sort of government; at least no major surprises have
recently been sprung on the students. The Sept. 18 action seems to be a
step away from a participatory government.
Though Bethel College is a business, and should be administered as
such, the student senate exists to facilitate student input to administrative
decisions.
True, the leaders of a government need privacy to discuss delicate and
sensitive issues. Bin these discussions should be held in private, not in
official board meetings where policy decisions and recommendations
are made. An important issue deserves input from the student body,
especially its elected representatives, before it is too late for that input to
have an effect.
We are not trying to paint a picture of a wily, cunning and ruthless
clan of politicians, wraggling high-level decisions behind closed doors in
a smoke-filled room. Hoswell and Stone have done a good job in a
seemingly open and public student senate.
But Bethel needs a more open approach to its decision making, from
the top administrators on down, including the student senate.
Macalester initiates 'Feeding a Hungry World' lecture series
Three internationally renowned
authorities on the issue of world
food production will participate in
a lecture series, "Feeding A Hun-gry
World," at Macalester Col-lege
this fall.
The series, which begins Oct. 2,
will focus on the role of climate on
world food production, ways of
expanding food supply through
the development of new crops,
and the role of the United States
in easing food shortages.
The series of six lectures, spon-sored
by the Macalester College
Hubert H. Humphrey Endowed
Professorship Fund, is free and
open to the public. All of the lec-tures
will be held in the Olin Hall
of Science Auditorium on the
campus, 1600 Grand Ave.
The lecturers are Reid A. Bry-son,
director of the Institute of
Environmental Studies at the Uni-versity
of Wisconsin-Madison,
Richard Evans Schultes, director
of the Botanical Museum of Har-vard
University, and Walter P.
Falcon, director of the Food Re-search
Institute at Stanford
University.
Bryson is one of a handful of
US scientists researching climatic
changes brought about by hu-mans.
He has made frequent na-tional
and international headlines
for his predictions that the world
can probably expect another ice
age within the next few centuries.
Schultes is a world renowned
botanist who spent 12 years of
near-isolation in the Amazon
jungle searching for rare plants.
The world's leading authority on
medicinal and hallucinogenic
plants, he has also served as a con-sultant
to many underdeveloped
nations to help increase their agri-cultural
productivity and export
potential.
Falcon is an internationally
known expert on the economics of
agriculture, particularly in rela-tion
to underdeveloped countries.
He also is a member of the Pre-sidential
Commission on World
Hunger.
He studied the economics of
farming in the underdeveloped ara
of Pakistan. He also has studied
the effects of the so-called "Green
Revolution"—the introduction of
high yield plants—and the impact
of land reform in Third World
countries.
The schedule for the lecture
series is:
Tuesday, October 2, 7:30 p.m.
Desserts of the Future. Reid A.
Bryson, Ph.D.
Thursday, October 4, 7:30 p.m.
Impact of Climatic Change on
World Food Supply. Reid A. Bry-son,
Ph.D.
Tuesday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.
New Flour for Your Daily Bread.
Richard Evans Shultes, Ph.D.
Thursday, November I , 7:30
p.m. How Much Can Uncle Sam
Do?—America's Role in Easing
World Hunger. Richard Evans
Schultes, Ph.D.
Tueday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.
The Tropics: The New Garden of
Eden, Richard Schultes, Ph.D.
Thursday, November 8, 7:30
p.m. Save That Plant—The
"Weed" You Kill Today May be
Your Food Tomorrow. Richard
Evans Schultes, Ph.D.
In addition to these public lec-tures,
the program will also fea-ture
a number of special events to
be scheduled later.
Information on special events
or more information on the lec-ture
series can be obtained by call-ing
647-6221.
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by Dan Eckert.
Proposition: If God once used a
"chicken of the sea" like Jonah of
Tarshish in his plans for Nineveh,
then why couldn't he put to use
Bethel's "good tasting tuna" in
his plans for "Charlie?"
Well, he did in the mind of
"Charlie" Retts, who recently
took the bait as Bethel's new dean
of men. Charlie's decision may
not correlate exactly with this
fishy analogy, but his call to Be-thel
seemed strangely similar.
As a former student affairs
associate at Azuza Pacific College
in California, Charlie had little
notion of the open position at
Bethel, or even where Bethel was
on the map.
At a National Student Affairs
convention he briefly met a guy
named Wink Menser, and later
heard of the opening for applica-tions,
of which he sent many, at
Bethel. In the following weeks,
however, Charlie had possible
positions at many other larger
Universities out west, and forgot
about Bethel for the time being.
June came in sunny California
and so did a phone call from
Mack Nettleton, asking if Charlie
would consider an interview soon.
"I had to refuse," said Charlie.
"I had some other jobs available
and knew so little about Bethel."
Six weeks later Bethel got a
phone call, this time from Charlie,
asking if the position was still
open. Something, maybe a still
small voice, convinced him to
look into this Christian school in
far-off Minnesota.
"I was told that there were now
a few candidates who were being
interviewed, but that if I was still a
possible chance for the job I'd get
a call," said Charlie with a re-lieved
look on his face.
He could relax, knowing that if
the Lord wanted him at Bethel
he'd receive the call, otherwise
"one of those guys would most
likely get the job."
Come the end of July, Charlie
received another surprising call
from Mack Nettleton asking if he
could "fly out for an interview as
soon as possible." After some
prayer, and women's intuition
from his wife Laura, Charlie left
Los Angeles, in a step of faith, for
an interview in the land of
Ninev...Minnesota.
After the trip out and the inter-view,
Charlie was offered the
position and accepted the role as
dean of men at Bethel. He says
that he made his decision partly
based upon Bethel's good reputa-tion
and from his experience while
being on campus.
"Most of the students I talked
with were friendly," he explained.
"they seemed more directive in
their lives than many students I
knew."
Charlie's only regret was having
to cope with the Siberian climate
in Minnesota, and the reality of
less good Mexican food. Despite
that, he said, "I knew I could do
the best job here, and so did my
wife."
As dean of men, that job would
let him, handle many responsi-bilities
which he enjoyed doing,
instead of one specialized area.
Among those responsibilities are
some of the following: ISA ad-visor
and student senate advisor,
student counseling services, leader
of orientation at Bethel—that's
Welcome Week—and programs
for academic improvement.
Included in this list, to some
people, is the notion that the main
reason for a dean is so he can pun-ish
those "lifestyle losers" of the
devilish sort.
Charlie hopes he can dispell this
myth among students at Bethel.
After all, how would it look if a
new T.V. series entitled,
"Charlie's Devils" appeared in
the Student Affairs section of the
campus? Also, Charlie assured me
that he won't speak with students
through an intercom either, but
will meet them in person.
by Patty Sutton
"Who I am is in these," Scott
Hafemann commented after
answering several "trivial" ques-tions
concerning his past life while
picking up some pieces of course
material.
Teaching full-time for his first
semester at Bethel, Hafemann is a
member of the Biblical and
Theological Studies Department.
Over the past two years he has
taught three courses here while
studying at Bethel and Luther Se-minaries.
Hafemann graduated from Be-thel
College in 1976 with a concen-tration
in New Testament Studies.
He went on to Fuller Seminary
where he earned an M.A. in his-torical
theology, though some of
his credits were transferred from
Bethel and Luther Seminaries.
Hafemann is a newlywed of six
months. He and his wife, Debrah,
are expecting a baby around Feb.
10. They are living at the Dan
Taylor's on Lake Johanna. Tay-lor,
assistant professor of lan-guage
and literature, is now in
England on a study tour.
Next year the Hafemanns plan a
move to Germany so that Scott
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grimaces as she absorbs
the shock of a bursting water
balloon. (Photo by Tom Twin-ing)
can attend the University of Tubi-ngen
to work on his Ph.D. That
will take at least three years.
When he finishes, Hafemann
plans to return to the States and
find a teaching position here. It
doesn't matter to him where he
finally lives because he moved so
much as a child.
"My dad was an executive with
Goodyear so we moved around
quite a bit," he said. He says he
lived mostly in the Midwest and
when asked to pinpoint a home-town
he said he considers Minne-sota
as "a kind of big
hometown."
He agrees with Christopher
Derrick's book "Escape from
Scepticism: Liberal Education as
if Truth Mattered." He doesn't
think "the transfer of notes from
the teacher to the student's note-book"
is a good way to run a
class.
In his "Introduction to Bible"
syllabus Hafemann says, "The
purpose of a liberal-arts education
is ultimately not the transfer of
knowledge from one group of
people to another, but to teach the
student how to pursue that know-ledge
for himself."
Teaching full-time keeps him
busy. He says he doesn't have any
"spare time" since he is usually
preparing for class—something he
enjoys.
When he's not studying for
classes, his favorite activity is
reading. He likes to read inter-pretations
of the New Testament,
Old Testament, history, and
Christian thinkers.
Hafemann also enjoys any
book that "attempts to explain
reality" such as Kant, Aristotle
and C.S. Lewis. He doesn't care
to read about the "great thinkers"
but would rather try to under-stand
them himself.
"I'd rather read Paul than a
commentary on Ephesians," he
said. Hafemann believes a liberal-arts
education is meant to teach a
person how to intelligently
evaluate reality for himself.
Other things he enjoys are his
church involvement, being with
friends, playing racquetball, and
watching the Green Bay Packers.
New Bible prof Hafemann
graduates from 'part-time'
Central Baptist Church
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`The need is great' for
SMP global outreach
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Don Belton, assistant professor
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Belton, from p. 1
ure to have plastic surgery with
undergoing cancer operations."
The Beltons did feel "very com-fortable,"
however, in the Asian
culture and have a definite desire
to return on a short term basis,
perhaps with the World Health
Organization or UNICEF.
"It is much harder to come
back to your own culture than go
to another culture," Belton recall-ed.
In coming back, you must "re-
P.O. boxes are filled with mail
from various Christian organiza-tions
asking for prayer and finan-cial
support. Chapel speakers talk
about needs in the world, and how
the Christian is responsible to help
the hungry and oppressed. But
what can a Bethel student do
about all this?
In order to answer that question
and put their answer into action,
several faculty members and stu-dents
formed the Christian Disci-pleship
Coalition (CDC) last spr-ing.
Don Postema, who says he
"just provides the impetus" for
CDC, said the coalition has two
main goals.
The first concern of CDC, he
said, is to make the Bethel corn-munity
aware of needs in the
world. The second concern is ac-tion.
Members of the CDC become
aware of needs of organizations
such as Bread for the World,
Amnesty International, and
World Vision. One way they can
put their awareness into action is
by writing letters to congressmen
about food problems overseas,
something that lobbying group
Bread for the World is concerned
about.
They can also write letters to
men in political leadership posi-tions
around the world to discour-age
them from torturing political
prisoners.
Besides becoming aware and
writing letters, Postema said
students can identify with the
poor by leading a simpler lifestyle.
of social work, spent last year on
learn the things you learned when
small, and now no one will teach
you." A feeling of "panic"
strikes when you don't remember
how to correctly cross a street, or
what to do first in a supermarket.
Helping "reenculturate" mis-sionaries
is an interest of Belton's.
The entire experience "confirm-ed
my conviction that there is
something very evil in middle class
values," he said. "Living simply,
having a sense of community, and
"Many students want to simplify
the menus and make the best use
of their resources, such as
clothes."
He said that CDC is not a group
who attempts to have a "holier
than thou" image, or be ve-getarians
and wear rags. Rather,
they are attempting to be "re-sponsible
in light of God's Word
and in community with others,"
Postema said.
"We're not out to incriminate
anyone," he said. "But we will
point the finger of judgement at
institutional practices." The CDC
has suggested an alternative to the
annual All-school Banquet. They
feel that the money spent for
food, etc., seemed "to be an ir-responsible
use of resources."
CDC is also concerned with the
menu in food service, and making
students aware of what they eat.
"We want to sensitize people as
how to best use their resources,"
Postema said.
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sabbatical in India. (Photo by
sharing with others are far more
important."
"My relationship with God has
always been a rational thing," he
continued, "but there were many
events in which there appeared to
be a supernatural intervention—
meeting the right people, finding a
good church, getting our visas.
I've never been as conscious of
that kind of intervention."
As far as Bethel is concerned, a
cross-cultural flavor will be added
in the social work department.
So much of the social work here
is based on "middle class values
and a European heritage," said
Belton. The basic Western theo-ries
taught have to do with solving
problems. "We want to be in con-trol
of our lives," he said. On the
other hand, Eastern theories em-phasize,
"becoming, discovering
our identity and helping a person
become part of a network of rela-tionships."
"We must learn that, when work-ing
with different people, we must
resolve problems in a way comfor-table
to them, rather than to our-selves.
However, in order to do
this, we must first learn from
them."
This will ake a "little more lis-tening,"
and a lot more "muck-ing."
by Suzi Wells
Sharing Jesus Christ with In-dian
alcoholics in Vancouver,
British Columbia brought SMPer
Dave Eckert both joy and frus-tration
this summer.
at
"So many guys' lives are wrap-ped
up in alcohol," he said. Many
only wanted help with alcohol,
not with the deeper problem,
which is the sin in their lives," he
explained.
This summer, Dave, the current
president of Bethel's Student Mis-sionary
Project (SMP) and 34
other students went to all parts of
the world.
Each student had different
responsibilities. Some sang on
tour in the group
"Proclamation," some taught
English, and others worked in of-fices.
Dave worked for North
American Indian Mission. After
seeing beautiful slides and listen-ing
to stories former SMPers told
of British Columbia, he was ex-cited
to see that area.
Instead of working in the
wilderness or on Indian reserves,
though, Dave worked in the city.
"This summer they started an ur-ban
ministry, and they asked for
volunteers."
Dave volunteered because he
had just completed a paper on
skid row alcoholics. He also spent
the previous fall semester in San
Francisco in Westmont's Urban
Studies program.
Working with alcoholics was
often frustrating for Dave. But in
spite of the frustrations, Dave
realized the Lord could use him.
"We were able to plant a seed,"
he said. "We saw that these guys'
salvation was not dependent on
us."
Dave said he and his teammate
realized how great God is. "We
were united as a team in the Word
and in prayer," he said. "I just
scratched the surface in realizing
the power in prayer."
Julie Redenbaugh spent her
summer working in Florida for
Teen Missions. She condensed
and sent out reports to over 50
teams, relating what each of the
teams in all parts of the world,
was doing.
In spite of her handicap (Julie
has cerebral palsy), Julie partici-pated
in part of the Teen Missions
rigorous two-week boot camp.
Although most of the teens slept
in tents, climbed 25 feet of dangling
rope and swung across rivers on
ropes like Tarzan, Julie limited
her activities to climbing "The
Wall." Team members help each
other climb the wall.
"Everything is team oriented,"
Julie explained. "There is a rule:
no pairing off, because they
couldn't maintain team unity."
Julie slept on the floor in the
back of her office during boot
camp and ate in the "jungle" with
the other teens. "We weren't
allowed to have ice milk or hot
water," Julie recalled. "The
teams had to bathe in the river
with their swim suits on."
After boot camp, the teams
departed but Julie stayed to work
in Florida. Julie had her "special"
typewriter sent Jo her to facilitate
typing. (Julie has been typing
since second grade).
Like Dave, Julie had frustrating
times. "I felt really alone when all
the teams left," she said. "I learn-ed
to appreciate home."
"It was challenging for me,"
she added. "I got a glimpse of
cont. on page 5
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Shelly Nielsen
Phone sales job falls short of glamorous goals I
SMP, cont. from page 4
what the real world is like. At
Bethel, I'm secure. All of my
securities were taken away so I
had to depend on God a lot
more."
Mark Rentz taught English in
Japan this summer in the Scrum-dendo
program, whose emphasis
is on "arm-in-arm evangelism."
Teaching classes in the church
he attended, Mark had 34 pupils.
Eleven were children and 14 were
not Christians. Less than one per-cent
of the Japanese are Chris-tians.
"There is a narrow road to
heaven in Japan," Mark explain-ed,
"not a six-lane highway like in
America. The Japanese have
quality Christianity, not
quantity."
Some reasons more • Japanese
are not Christians is because Bud-dhism,
Shintoism and secularism
are so prevelant there.
"Christianity breaks up the
homogeneity," Mark said. The
Japanese are a very unified group.
Mark spent a lot of time with
his students outside the
classroom. They visited many cul-tural
attractions, such as the Tea
Gardens in Kyoto, and the largest
wooden temple in the world in
Nara. •
Two of Mark's students ac-cepted
Christ, a small miracle in
such a country. Mark also had the
opportunity to share with a Bud-dhist
monk, who even visited
Mark's church.
Mark said he would like to
return to Japan. "The need is so
great," he stressed. The high cost
of living keeps many missionaries
away.
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No bitter combination of words will shut up your griping roommate
faster than "You could be working." Throw this phrase crisply at him
next time he whines, "W.A.R. theme...all night at Perkins...7:15
a.m.bus." Watch revulsion seep into his eyes, silence seal his lips. All
college students share this one ugly memory: the summer job.
Granted, there have always been those few disgusting individuals who
breeze back to school each fall brimming with tales of whirlwind sum-mer
months spent in Tokyo or Bermuda, but they're exceptions. (Ignore
them. Better yet, well up saintly tears of reminiscence and murmur
selflessly, "I worked with Hennepin derelicts all summer—for the
Lord."))
Take my word for it, 99.5% of all Bethelites (statistics not for release)
stagger back to Arden Hills, emotionally unbalanced masses of over-worked
flesh who shriek at the words, "cash register," "double cheese-burger,
medium fries," and "camp counselor." After three months of
"vacation," even two-hour "quizzes" and soggy sloppy joes (@ $.65
ea.) spell utopia.
Trouble starts every summer when employers realize that college
students are only available three months. ("Ohhh," say interviewers
leaning over my shoulder as I write "summer work" on applications.
"Just till August, huh? You've got the wrong form." The second asks
questions more probing: 1) Are you willing to work over 18 hours per
day? 2) Is a lunch break really necessary? 3) When would you be
available to do the manager's housecleaning?
But just how low can a financially insecure collegiate sink? To what
depths will she descend? What catastrophic circumstances could induce
an ordinary Bethel student with a standardized major, 3. + GPA, and
"nice" family embrace that infamous poor-person's summer occupa-tion,
telephone sales?
This summer's vocational goals had been modest. I dreamed of don-ning
trim camp ranger uniform and commuting to Redwood Forest,
there to rove campsites in my shiny jeep, answering adoring tourists'
questions. I also thought lovingly of an assignment setting a struggling
publishing firm on its feet, of exposing captive young minds to the
freedoms of Montessori...
An irritable employment agency representative informed me that no,
there were not any openings for batch tasters at a fudge factory, nor was
there currently a demand for apprentice highwire performers. He curtly
referred me to the local temporary services agency.
It was midsummer now, and after another lunch of dill pickles and
bread crust, I was easy to persuade. Dejectedly, I promised the tem-porary
office I'd accept any job they dug up—anything of course, short
of telephone sales.
My first day in telephone sales dawned drab and humid. I pulled ner-vously
into the parking lot of a decrepit brick building. Lightning rent
the darkened sky in terrible, ominous flashes. A hunched creature with
greying temples, nervously clutching hands, and a black cape waited for
me at the door. His college ring looked new.
"You're the replacement?" He chortled in insane glee as he led me
down a winding, cob-webbed hallway.
"Your phone." He pointed to a dilapidated, nail-scratched machine,
and abruptly leaped upon the desk.
"Phone numbers! Phone numbers! Phone numbers!" he intoned,
flinging a Portland phone book into my suddenly trembling arms. He
stumped toward the door. I was alone—alone with the telephone.
My first call began well, thanks to a tasteful, hand-scrawled script I
speedily composed ("HellothisisShellyNielsenrepresenting—"). Unex-pectedly,
my inquisitive client interrupted the neatly-planned
monologue.
"Who?"
I searched my text frantically for reference to spontaneous queries..
Startled, as I was by this digression from my outline, I made rapid im-promptu
response with the finesse of an experienced telephoner.
"I'm sorry. I'm not qualified to answer that question, but if you'll
give me your full name, weight, and savings account number, I'll have a
sales rep contact you."
There was a short silence followed by a prolonged buzzing noise.
My second would-be customer allowed me time enough to vocalize
my speech, but even after the oozingly sincere, "Oh, that's all right.
Thank you so much anyway," refused to buy. Neither did he gush over
my pleasant phone voice. I hung up on him, insulted and disillusioned.
Outcomes of these calls had to be recorded on information cards, and
I meticulously printed names and addresses in my own style of "News
Gothic" lettering. Not only was the phoning interrupting my creative
calligraphy process, it was damaging my emotional equilibrium. This
reasoning justified my abandoning the calls altogether to instead pro-duce
heaping mounds of artistic info forms.
I was enthusiastically starting my third page of "P"s when my lunatic
trainer appeared at the door, brandishing a machete. His suggestion was
that I return to my dialing. Issuing curses upon summer employment in
general, I spliced together the pieces of telephone cord I had just cut.
Having mastered the superhuman technique of racing through an en-tire
sales pitch without a breath, I practiced the more subtle complexities
of telephonal persuasion.
I developed three distinct voices: The Marilyn Monroe—breathy, ir-resistable,
the Camille—shy and prone to tragic, sudden, and fatal at-tacks
of ill health, and (my last resort) the refuse-me-and-I-cry tone.
None of my innovative defense mechanisms seemed to work any ef-fect
upon the sympathies of my listeners, however. Even after I had
sifted my forms into logical order ("nicest" names on top), I continued
to suffer insults from individuals who resented my purely businesslike
interest in their personal lives. Repeatedly, I endured the humiliation of
stuttering, the trauma of my forgetting the company's name, the
devastation of flat rejection.
None of this preliminary agony, though, could guarantee my emo-tional
survival of a fateful call to "H.G." During our 30-second conver-sation,
he voiced some sincere sentiments of his own heartfelt "Thank
you so very much anyway" failed to move him. I spent the remainder of
the summer shuffling info cards and dialing wrong numbers.
Perhaps learning patience and longsuffering makes three months of
pain worthwhile. Perhaps I'm a better person having sojourned in this
valley of the shadow of death. Perhaps in eight months, I'll again be sta-ble
enough to face another summer job.
But until a shocking portion of fellow students and I can be convinced
that pain is blessed...thank goodness for vacation at Bethel.
Bethel grad Suzie Lane serves as Social Ministries Coordinator.
(Photo by Dan Velie)
Social Ministries position
created for area outreach
by Lori Rydstrom
"I want Bethel students to real-ize
that they have a very important
ministry in the secular world."
That is how Suzie Lane describes
her personal goal as the new So-cial
Ministries Coordinator for
Bethel.
Suzie, a 1978 Bethel graduate,
works with agencies in the Twin
Cities area that need volunteer
workers, gets them in touch with
interested students, and then
follows up to see how it's working
out for both the agency and the
student.
Her job started as a social work
internship, so she was responsible
for creating many aspects of the
program. As the number of stu-dents
involved in volunteer min-istries
grew from 15 in 1976 to 153
in 1979, the need for a full-time
program coordinator arose. The
position is funded by a grant from
the Minneapolis Foundation.
The opportunities that social
ministries offer are directed to-wards
the interest of the students.
Present opportunities include:
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—This is the last weekend of the Faculty Exhibition in the College
Gallery.
—Opening October 1 "Sculpture by Steven Heilmer". The exhi-bition
will run through October 26, with an opening reception Oc-tober
1, 7-9 p.m. in the College Gallery.
—October 1 through November 15 works by photographer Aaron
Siskind at the J. Hunt Galleries, Minneapolis.
MUSIC
—Minnesota Orchestra "Coffee Concert Series" in the Plaza Oc-tober
4. Neville Marriner, conducting.
—The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra "Capital Series" October 6
in O'Shaughnessy Auditorium.
THEATRE
—Both "Endgame" and "The Glass Menagerie" featured this
week at the Guthrie Theatre. Ticket information available at
377-2824.
—"Guys and Dolls"at the Chimera Theatre in St. Paul. Ticket
information available at 222-0792 or Donaldson's.
—"Side by Side by Sondheim" at the Bloomington Civic Theatre
in Normandale Community College. Ends September 29—This is
the last weekend.
—"The Time of Your Life." at the Theatre in the Round in
Minneapolis.
—At the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre: "Camelot," "The Rob-ber
Bridegroom," "I Do I Do," and "The Importance of Being
Earnest." Ticket information available at 934-1525.
—Through November 11 at the Children's Theatre Company,
"Treasure Island."
—"Attack of the Burger Pods," a wide-screen video Extra-vaganza
at Dudley Riggs' ETC. October 4 through 24.
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Page 6 entertainment
Faculty kicks off exhibit,
displays achievements
by Scott Barsuhn
The Fine Arts Faculty exhibi-tion
has traditionally been the
highlight of the year. Kicking off
a new semester this year in the col-lege
gallery and running through
the rest of this weekend is another
excellent showing by our own art
department faculty members.
A walk though the gallery af-fords
the viewer glimpses into the
personalities and people that
make up the department. These
works tell us who these people are,
where they are now in their artistic
endeavors and even say something
about their teaching.
The artists used a variety of ma-terials,
and a wide range of final
pieces are in the display. Some of
the pieces are new endeavors for
the artists. Such growth makes
this show exciting.
So make it a. point to go into the
art gallery. Meet our faculty mem-bers
through the pieces that are on
display.
EXHIBITION
SEPTEMBER 7-28, 1979
FACULTY
BETHEL COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS
Fine Arts Gallery
3900 Bethel Dr. Arden Hills, MN. 55112
Twin Cities Theater
Local drama productions entice cultural connoisseurs
by Scott Barsuhn
To those of the Bethel com-munity
who may be new to the
Twin Cities area, and to those
who have just returned after sev-eral
months away—good news.
Excellent theatre going oppor-tunities
await you.
Recently opened at the Chimera
Theatre in Saint Paul is that tested
and true old-time musical, "Guys
and Dolls." With songs that you
may remember your mother sing-ing
around the house, this love
story with a tune truly entertains.
The story takes place- in gang-ster-
era Chicago and involves a
somewhat detailed and humorous
look at the lives of a few singing
bad guys.
Nathan Detroit, played by
David Ira Goldstein does a com-mendable
job as he avoids the
marriage issue and chor.us girl,
Miss Adelaide (Cynthia Horton),
and tries to • set up an illegal
gambling operation. Comedy
begins when his "wife-to-be-someday"
informs him that to en-courage
her mother she has told
her that they have been married
for several years and have several
children.
Meanwhile our second leading
man, Sky Masterson, played by
Bob Wills also avoids, and then
falls in love with a woman of re-ligious
convictions, played by
Joan Elizabeth Phalen. An inter-esting
series of events ensues as
this gangster and lady of dignity
get together. All works out in the
end however, and as in most all
musicals, the hero gets his woman
and if a bad guy—as in this
case—turns over a new leaf and
goes straight.
The production is highlighted
by a fine supporting cast and a va-riety
of well done song and dance
numbers. Although dated, and
often times moving at a somewhat
slow pace, this show is still a fun
evening for all guys and dolls, and
will run through October 2.
On a strikingly different note,
for those who appreciate variety,
"The Time of Your Life" at the
Theatre in the Round in Minnea-polis
features serious drama and
interesting character study.
The action takes place in the
late thirties and centers around the
events in a San Francisco honky-tonk
(or for the braver, saloon).
The audience is introduced to
many interesting characters dur-ing
the one full day at this quality
establishment.
Outstanding performances are
given by Hobe Harden, Stephen
Roeser, Randy Lindstrom, John
Smith and Bob Lockman, a
Bethel graduate. Comment is
made about the games that all of
us play, our roles in those games,
and perhaps with some thought,
even why we play them.
Although the action at times
seems unevenly paced, the charac-ters
are well defined and well por-trayed.
This evening is well spent
and will provide for much thought
and reflective conversation at any
interesting Cedar-Riverside
restaurant within walking dis-tance.
It's a show to see, and will
run through October 20.
Mention must also be made that
this is the final weekend of "Side
by Side by Sondheim" at the
Bloomington Civic Theatre. This
musical review is very entertaining
with Bethel Graduate Carole
Anderson stealing the show with
her part in such memorable songs
as "Broadway Baby" and "You
Gotta Get A Gimmick." Tickets
may still be available, and in-cluding
this show in your weekend
guarantees an interesting evening.
New phy. ed. department head and athletic director is George
Henry, who came here from Keene State College in New Hamp-shire.
(Photo by Tom Twining)
New athletic director strives to
find athletes that reflect Bethel
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by Mary Beth Larson and
Bob Schmidt
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Coffeehouses offer stage,
by Mari Broman
More than Christian
entertainment, coffeehouses allow
Christian musicians with little fun-ding
to share their talents, said
Timm Rolek of New Horizon cof-feehouse.
Formerly of the group
"Trilogy," Rolek and Al Nygard,
now a Bethel student, began the
Brooklyn Center ministry in
April, 1979.
New Horizon, like the other
Twin City coffeehouses, books a
variety of the 200-plus musical
groups available in *he
area—from blue-grass, ballads
and blues, to country and contem-porary.
The monthly open-stage
nights introduce new talent, and
although most of the groups are
amateur, Rolek said they have had
no "out-to-lunch" musicians.
Located in the renovated base-ment
of Cross of Glory Lutheran
Church, New Horizon started as a
community outreach financed pri-marily
by the church. The snack
bar helps pay some expenses.
Rolek's ministry attempts to
preach Christ through music and
the lives of the staff, rather than
"to push anything on anybody,"
Rolek said. "Subtlety is a much
more effective means than hitting
someone over the head with a
brick," he added.
The staff of the other area cof-feehouses
share this opinion. Lo-gos,
the oldest coffeehouse in the
Twin Cities, has a Bible study and
movies at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays,
but the message on Friday and Sa-turday
comes in the music, with a
short devotional during a break.
Logos also provides a counseling
program.
The suburban location of Gene-sis
House calls for a different
counseling ministry. "We want to
be progressive," said Director
Steve McDill, "and allow people
to make a contribution to their
friends."
The days are passing quickly,
and we have already reached the
end of September. To end the
month with a bang, special activi-ies
have been planned for Friday
night and Saturday!
On Friday, the 28th, everyone is
invited to the "Movies and
Munchies!" Besides eating all the
pizza possible, the movies, "The
Rescuers" and "The Twelve
Chairs," will be shown for your
entertainment. You'll be laughing
all night. Meet us in the gym at
8:00 p.m. and bring $1.00.
Saturday will prove to be really
fun when you join your friends in
spending a day at Valley Fair. The
Genesis also has an optional Bi-ble
study in the middle of the Sa-turday
evening music downstairs
in Crystal Free Church. During
this time they play taped music
upstairs for those who choose not
to participate. "But, approx-imately
50 of the 100-150 people
go to the Bible study," said
McDill.
The Upper Room serves in ano-ther
way. Because it is located on
the 3rd floor of the Soul's Harbor
church, 75% of the people that
come are Christians. "People
should feel comfortable bringing
their non-Christian friends,
though," said staff member Tim
Ralph. The Upper Room offers
food, music, and Christian drama
each Friday.
Jacob's Well, an outreach of
the Catholic Youth Center, is the
"nicest and largest, although the
Genesis House
9300 Rockford Road,
New Hope, MN
533-2397
Sat. 9:00-12:00 p.m.
Jacob's Well
Catholic Youth Center
150 N. Smith
St. Paul, MN
224-2853
Fri. 8:00-11:30 p.m.
Logos
30101/2 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN
825-3672
Fri. and Sat. 8:30-1:00 p.m.
buses will leave at 9:00 a.m. from
NC for those of you who have
previously signed up on the C.C.
bulletin board. If you would really
like to go, but you didn't sign up
in advance, contact the C.C.'s im-mediately!
Tickets will be $6.85 at
the gate. We'll plan to leave Val-ley
Fair at 5:00 p.m. Take a day's
vacation, and have a GREAT
time.
This next week marks the begin-ning
of our Homecoming
Happening! The theme of the
week is, "We're the Royal Pipe
Cleaners!" The Bethel football
team will be playing the Hamline
Pipers on Saturday afternoon.
The week will begin with
announcing of the "Host & Hos-tess"
nominations for the '79-'80
school year in chapel on Monday.
music
least-known" of the area coffee-houses,
according to worker Ron
Morris. As many as 200 people go
through the doors three Fridays a
month to hear the music.
Once a month the coffeehouse
closes while Clyde Digit and Fa-mily,
a professional drama group,
stages a play. In October they will
present "The Velvetine Rabbit."
Other coming productions include
original works "The Princess and
the Players," and "The Juggler of
Notre Dame," in November and
December.
Redeemer Lutheran Church in
Fridley, formerly the location of
the Rising Son coffeehouse, now
holds a Praise Fest every Saturday
night, with a special concert once
a month. Although the coffee-house
is now discontinued, the
fests provide opportunities for
Christians to get together for
prayer, worship and singing.
New Horizon
5940 Ewing Ave. N.
Minneapolis, MN
533-8602
Sat. 8:00-12:00 p.m.
Redeemer Lutheran Church
61 Mississippi Way NE
574-7445
Sat . eve.
Upper Room
Soul's Harbor
230 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN
338-0771
Fri. 8:00-12:00 p.m.
Wednesday is "Hat Day," for
which you must wear the hat of
your choice. There will also be a
Powder Puff FB game on Wed-nesday
in the early evening. Fri-day
is "Dress-Up Day," along
with "The Royal Celebration"
taking place in the evening.
The Royal Celebration includes
the coronation of the new Host &
Hostess and the introduction of
the soccer and football team mem-bers
and cheerleaders. The coron-ation
will be held in the gym at
8:00 p.m. with a bonfire to follow
at 9:00 p.m. The bonfire will in
elude a torch light parade, a pep
rally, fellowship and singing, and
of course, hot chocolate. The
bonfire will be held at "picnic
hill" over by the Seminary.
Of course, the icing on the cake
by Greg Kuntz
Among the new faces at Bethel
this year is George Henry, taking
on the role of athletic director and
skipper of the physical education-al
department.
An articulate and outspoken
man, Henry enjoys working and
getting things done for people.
Henry came to Bethel this sum-mer
from Keene State College in
New Hampshire, where he super-vised
student teachers in physical
education. He had previously
coached football at Owen Valley
High School in Indiana, and was a
guidance counselor and director
of a Young Life Club while com-pleting
his doctorate at Indiana
University.
He is an alumnus of Tarkio
College in Missouri. He also
coached football, basketball and
track while teaching history and
P.E. at Tarkio High. School.
Henry said that he is excited to
is the Keith Green Concert to be
held on Saturday night. No tickets
will be sold, because there will be
a love offering taken, and the con-cert
begins at 8:00 p.m. at the
Minneapolis Auditorium. Buses
be a part of Bethel. "I like the
people here. They are dedicated
and hard working," he said.
He feels much needs to be done
about Bethel athletics. "I will be
working to meet a lot of people to
identify with. There are many who
ant to do something for Bethel
and I want them to know how
they can help the P.E. depart-ment.
I want to continue re-cruiting
athletes who will posi-tively
reflect Bethel," said Henry.
"I'll be meeting people from
other departments to understand
their needs too," he said. "We
want to make fair and responsible
decisions concerning the athletic
program here," he added. "but a
lot of time is needed."
Henry feels that Bethel has a
sense of purpose and that he has a
sense of purpose being here. "I
accept the challenge of leadership
here. Ultimately, we leave things
to the Lord and His leading," he
said.
those of you who need transpor-tation.
Keith Green is an excellent
performer with a genuine love for
God! You won't want to miss this
concert. What a great week. Get
involved and enjoy every minute
Notice: Tryouts for cheerleaders for basketball, hockey and
wrestling will be held on Tuesday evening, Oct.2 in the wrestling
room. A clinic to learn cheers and what is needed for tryouts will
be held tonight from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. also in the wrestling room.
Guys with gymnastic experience or willingness to try are en-courages
to come too!
October festivities include football, coronation
Jon Fredrickson's two goals paced Bethel past Hamline. (Photo by Doug Barkey)
Page 8 sports
Bethel demolishes Scots 31-6
Returning starter Debbie Omath (24) spikes versus St. Paul Bible
College in Bethel's home opener last Monday. The Royals won
15-6, 15-5, 15-10. (Photo by Doug Barkey)
Strong serves highlight
V ball Invitational debut
by Tim Haugen
Rumor had it that Macalester's
43-game losing streak was in jeo-pardy.
Macalester had performed
respectably the week before (re-spectable
is a relative term in this
context), while Bethel was a victim
of big plays as they bowed to St.
Thomas 42-14. Perhaps, as the ru-mor
suggested, Macalester was
finally in a position to prevent
their renown from becoming more
dubious.
Bethel's football team played as
though they had been insulted
that Macalester, the press, or any-body
had the audacity to entertain
a notion that Bethel would be the
opponent that inaugurated a new
losing streak for Macalester by
ending the old one.
Led by Ken Cooper, Jim An-derstrom
and an aggressive de-by
Ellie Abbott
After being defeated by Augs-burg
on Wednesday, 2-0, the Be-thel
soccer team came back and
upended Hamline University 3-1
on Saturday.
On Wednesday Sept. 19, Bethel
traveled to Ft. Snelling Field and
lost to Augsburg 2-0. "We con-trolled
the ball from start to fin-ish,"
said Coach Mark Leigh,
"but just couldn't put it in the
net."
Bethel had several good shots
including an open break by Marc
Maillefer, and other fine shots by
Mark Johnson, Joel Kraakevik,
and senior Doug Hage.
After Augsburg scored their se-cond
goal, the Royals played su-perb
defense and Augsburg didn't
even take the ball past the half
line.
Coach Leigh was pleased with
the team effort against Augsburg
and said, "We have only played
together for two weeks and it
takes some time to get it
together."
fense that intercepted four passes,
the Royals crushed the Scots 31-6.
There would be no renaissance
this week at Bethel's expense.
The Royals asserted themselves
immediately, with Anderstrom or-chestrating
a touchdown drive on
Bethel's intitial possession. The
drive, highlighted by a long pass
from Anderstrom to Cooper, was
culminated on a 13-yard smash by
Dave Kadlec. Paul Lindberg kick-ed
the extra point and Bethel led,
7-0.
On Bethel's second possession
they again marched mechanically
toward a second touchdown.
Again the big play was a long
pass, this time a halfback option
from Tom Klitzke to Cooper. The
touchdown was scored on a two-yard
run by Klitzke, and after
Lindberg's conversion, the
Royal's led 14-0.
Early in the second quarter,
In Saturday's game against
Hamline, Jon "Freddy" Fredrick-son
turned in a strong perfor-mance
for the Royals to beat
Hamline 3-1.
All four goals were scored in the
second half of the game. The first
goal, scored by Fredrickson, was
an indirect free kick which Bethel
had learned and practiced this
past week.
Soon after Bethel scored, Ham-line
tied it up 1-1 from a rebound
on a shot the goalie, Jeff Beck-man,
made a nice save on.
The Royals came back soon af-ter
with a penalty kick made by
Jon Fast to lead Hamline 2-1.
Bethel still had energy though,
and with approximately one min-ute
left in the game Fredrickson
scored again on a throw-in from
the sideline which hit off the goal-ie's
hand and into the net.
Bethel's strong team effort on
Saturday paid off. Their record is
now 2-1 and coach Leigh is "look-ing
forward to the rest of the sea-son."
Bethel meets St. Thomas this
Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
Bethel scored their third touch-down,
this time on a 38-yard
touchdown toss from Anderstrom
to Paul (Oral) Roberts. Roberts
broke a tackle and outran the
defense en route to the score.
Lindberg added the point and
Bethel led 21-0.
Meanwhile, Bethel's defense
was playing excellent football.
The defense set up Bethel's fourth
score on an alert defensive play by
Jeff Bergeson, who intercepted a
pass and ran it back inside the Ma-calester
twenty. Four plays later
Lindberg entered the game and
drilled a 35-yard field goal to
make it 24-0.
The score remained 24-0 until
the fourth quarter when Macal-ester
scored their only points of
the day on a 35 7_yard run by Den-nis
Czech. Bethel answered that
score a few minutes later when
Frank Sanza caught a 13-yard
touchdown strike from Ander-strom,
completing a drive that
featured a well-executed inside re-verse
to Peter Kramka. Lindberg _
kicked the point, making it 31-6.
For Bethel, Ken Cooper was
brilliant. The smooth junior from
Rolling Meadows, Illinois, caught
8 passes for 149 yards. Several of
his receptions were ^ in traffic
where he had to come back to the
ball. Anderstrom again played
well in engineering all four touch-down
drives and throwing two
touchdown passes. The defensive
performance included intercep-tions
by Randy Fredin, Dan
Stockfish, Mike Hoffner, and Jeff
Bergeson.
Bethel's next game is tomorrow
afternoon at Collegeville against
St. John's.
by Laura Woodruff
For the first time, the turnout
for women's volleyball necessita-ted
a roster trimming. Coach
Karyl Frye had to cut eleven
women from the 35 that tried out
for volleyball this fall.
The team is young, with four
freshmen on varsity and seven on
J.V. Sheryl Meyer and Janet
Peterson are the co-captains.
Gracia Dalgren, JoAnn Griffin,
Kris Lindstrom, Cheryl Madson,
Tami Miller, Denise Nygren,
Merry Olmstead, Lori Olsen,
Sonya Olsen, Deb ,.Omath, Janet
Peterson and Joy Sorensen make
up the varsity squad. Coach Frye
has noticed that they need more
experience together since the team
is so young.
They placed sixth in the Bemidji
Invitational on Friday and Satur-day
Sept. 21 and 22, by winning
two matches and losing three.
Bethel defeated St. Thomas 15-8,
18-16, 15-9 and North Dakota
State U.
by Shari Goddard
The Bethel women's cross-country
team finished ninth out of
twelve teams in its first scored
meet of the season, the Lake
Nokomis Royal Invitational, last
Friday.
Ellie Abbott placed first for
Bethel and 34th out of 115 run-ners.
"So far I really like it (cross-country),
I think we'll be a close
team. Denise Egge was the star
last year. This year the top five are
closer together," she said.
Sophomore Wendy Norberg
and junior Brenda Harris, cap-tain,
placed 42nd and 50th respec-tively.
Coach Frye commented, "We
played some good matches." She
was pleased about the weekend
because the team played well even
though it was their first of the sea-son.
Bethel's serving percentage was
over 90 which gave them the high-est
of any team at the invitational.
This shows improvement because
their serving has been weak in the
past.
Cheryl Madson's and Kris
Lindstrom's good back row play
and Lori Olsen's excellent front
row play were noticeable.
On Wednesday, Oct. 3, Bethel
will play St. Mary's at 5:30, and
Winona at 7:30, here. On Oct. 4
they play at St. Theresa at 6:30.
Coach Frye hopes students will
take in all of the homecoming
events and see the Concordia-St.
Paul game on the morning of Oct.
6, here at 9:30, "We hope people
will come watch good volleyball;
we have a good team this year,"
she said.
Illness kept Bethel's fourth,
fifth, and sixth ranked runners
out of this meet. "Despite that we
did well. Runners who had never
run before did well," said Abbott.
The meet had a mixture of Be-thel's
division and upper division
teams. "We ran against some
strong teams," said Coach Shirley
Dawson. "It was a high class
meet."
"I think in our division we'll
probably be third or fourth," she
added. "It'll be really competitive
for the second, third and fourth
places. Number one spot is pretty
much sewn up by St. Olaf."
The Royals run at the Private
College Invitational, hosted by
Macalester, today at 4 p.m.
Fredrickson leads Royals
to 3-1 win over Hamline
Harriers paced by Abbott
to ninth in `high class' meet

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Tons of Bethel dirt, mud and silt are relocated in the
sand development project. (Photo by Dan Velie)
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Bethel's small, road bridge recently doubled in size as a result of the Rice Creek Watershed pro-ject.
(Photo by Dan Velie)
the Clarion. Vol. 55 No. 3 Bethel College, St. Paul, MN Sept. 28, 1979
Crooked creek gets facelift with stones, wire
by Jay Russell
Bethel's creek is receiving a ma-jor
facelift that will include four
small waterfalls and four major
curves, Physical Plant Director
Jim Woods said last week in an in-terview.
The creek is being reconstructed
to accommodate a greater flow of
water,, Woods explained. He
stressed that development in the
outlying areas in recent years has
created a much larger flow of wa-.
ter. The original creek bed does
not have the capacity to handle
this increased flow, and the result
has been widespread erosion of
the creek's bed.
The new creek bed will have the
capacity to handle this increased
flow. Woods said that the creek's
water volume stopped increasing
because new developments in out-lying
areas can no longer cause an
increase in the volume of water
entering the creek.
Bethel's creek lies within the
Rice Creek Watershed District
and is only one of eleven other
projects planned or under con-struction
in the area. "The project
involving our creek is probably
the largest of the projects,"
Woods said.
The entire creek is being re-vamped
from its point of entry on
Bethel's campus by highway 51, to
its mouth in Lake Valentine. The
creek drops approximately 22 feet
along this 2,000 foot length. This
steep drop greatly increases the
speed of water as if flows through
the campus. The new creek will
have four drops, or small_ water-falls
that will help slow the speed
of the water.
Woods explained that the drops
will be lined with Gabions, or wire
baskets designed to hold field
stones. This will keep the bank
from washing away and will help
sift out some of the silt, but more
importantly they will slow the wa-ter's
speed.
In addition to the drops from
the pipes, the new creek will have
four other small drops, ranging in
height from one and a half to
three feet tall.
Woods also explained that the
new creek will be much straighter,
and will have only four major
curves. "this will reduce the
amount of erosion to the stream
bed and banks of the stream," he
said.
In past years, water erosion to
the creek's banks has become
more noticeable, especially on the
creek's winding curve. In addition
to bank erosion, many trees have
been undercut by the stream's cur-rent;
making their removal neces-sary.
Woods said that within the
past four years, six trees along the
creek's banks were removed.
"A few years ago we had some
heavy spring rains that caused
flooding in the creek bed,"
Woods said. "The erosion on the
creek's curves near the LRC build-ing
hecame so bad, that the shift-ing
coil began to threaten the
foundation of the building. That
was when we rip-rapped the
bank's curves with railroad ties to
stop the erosion."
The new creek bed will be rip-rapped
with field stone grouted in
cement along each of the four
curves. This will minimize the
threat of erosion.
Woods said, "The new creek
bed will be from 9 to 18 feet wide,
with the banks having a maximum
width of 50 feet at the top. The
banks will slope one foot down
for every two feet across."
The wider creek bed will allow a
larger volume of water to flow
through the creek. The new creek
bed was calculated to handle the
flow from the freak 100-year
storm, he explained.
Woods said that "the new creek
will be lined with eight inches of
crushed limestones in the creek
bed, with sod laid on the banks."
"This will look like a drastic
change from the present. creek
bed, but silt deposits and plant
growth will gradually make the
stream appear more natural."
The new creek bed will not have
negative effects on Lake Valen-tine.
Woods said it may actually
help improve the lake situation by
Belton lives
by Susan Peterson
Dodging oxcarts and elephants
was an everyday occurrence for
Don Belton, assistant professor of
social work, during his eleven-month
sabbatical in S.E. Asia.
Two of these months were spent
in Sri Lanka due to visa problems,
and the remaining months in In-dia.
Belton, now in his eighth year in
Bethel's social work department,
lived in the city of Trivandrum in
the state of Kerala, India, along
with his wife Judy and their two
children.
"We wanted our family to live
in a non-western culture," said
Belton. "It is by understanding
others that we understand our-selves,
besides, I like mucking
around in peoples' lives."
While in Trivandrum, Belton
taught a graduate course in social
work and also a began a crimin-ology
program at Loyola College,
a Jesuit school.
The Beltons chose Trivandrum
for its "typical" Indian setting.
restricting the amount of silt de-posited
in the lake.
Bethel's creek takes in water
flow from the area bounded by
highway 96, Lexington Ave.,
Hamline Ave., and the railroad
tracks that border Bethel's cam-pus.
The water that flows out of
Lake Valentine drains into Long
Lake.
Woods said, "The project has
been in the planning stages for se-
Although it is the state capital, it
resembles a big village.
Only 25 Europeans lived in the
city. The Beltons could have
opted for royal treatment, how-ever,
they chose to live a "middle
caste" lifestyle.
"Caste is connected with every-thing—
buying power, marriage,
vocations, and political parties,"
Belton said. "Poor people are
kept in their place." Most of In-dia's
people are poor; 70 per cent
of the population fall below the
U.N. poverty line.
The few rich people live on es-tates
worked by servants. One per
cent of the population controls 95
per cent of the country's wealth.
"You are important by who you
know; who your friends are," he
said.
In the state of Kerala 20 per
cent of the people are Christians.
Just as caste controls Indian so-ciety,
a parallel caste system con-trols
the Church.
Syrian Christians (those who
owe their allegiance to the Angli-can
Bishop of Syria) are consi-dered
"high caste." All others, no
yen to eight years." The project
involving Bethel's creek will cost
approximately $215,000, most of
which has been funded through a
federal grant. The remaining costs
will be paid from local funding.
Construction on the lower half
of the creek will be completed in
about three weeks, weather per-mitting.
Woods said that the up-per
sections were a little more
complicated and would probably
take a little longer to complete.
matter how long they have been
Christians will be called "con-verts."
The two groups never mix.
Belton quickly added, "Our
churches here are just as bigoted.
How many Blacks, or how many
poor people do we include in our
churches?"
The Indian people are very hos-pitable
and extremely curious.
"The hardest thing for Westerners
to adjust to is the lack of
privacy," Belton said. "Many
homes have no doors so if people
want to visit you, they'll walk
right in. If you lock your door,
they will quietly move to a win-dow
and patiently wait for you to
notice them."
Some Indians fear talking with
Americans; they understand
English but are embarrassed to
speak it with their heavy accents.
Belton was most disturbed by
the sight of many beggars. "Peo-ple
flaunt their deformities to
make money," he said. "Many
suffer grotesque deformities be-cause
of leprosy, polio, and fail-
Belton, see p. 4
middle caste in India
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Editorial opinions are the sole responsibility of the Clarion staff. Letters
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before publication.
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Suzi Wells, Associate Editor
Carol Madison, News & Sports Editor
Steve Erickson, News & Sports Editor
Joy Nannette Banta, Copy Editor
Shelly Nielsen, Production, Doug Barkey, Photography Editor
Carolyn Olson, Graphics, Suanne Hawkins, Business Manager
Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
Scott Barsuhn, Fine Arts, Jay Russell, Staff Writer
Page 2 editorial
Senate drifts from
open government
A recent decision by the Bethel student senate strikes us all too remin-niscent
of the handling of the flat-rate tuition switch of two years ago.
On Sept. 18, during the regular meeting of the student senate, the
senators defeated a motion that would have made available the minutes
of the executive board meetings. The executive board consists of Presi-dent
Steven Hoswell, Vice-president Susan Stone, Treasurer Scott Bar-suhn,
Secretary Caryl Brown and the president pro tem. They meet
weekly to discuss coming legislation to make general plans concerning
the student government.
Under the proposed legislation, the minutes of those meetings would
be published for the senate members. According to one observer the
senate seemed in favor of the proposal at the outset. After much discus-sion
and a recommendation by new Dean of Men Charlie Retts, how-ever,
the senate voted to allow the executive board this measure of
privacy.
We view this as a sad step away from open government.
Two years ago an administrative decision to abolish Bethel's per
course payment plan and to replace it with a flat-rate tuition aroused ex-tensive
anger and bitterness on the part of students, the likes of which is
not often seen at Bethel. The issue then, as it is now, was not that a
method of payment was to be changed, rather that the plan was con-ceived,
approved and implemented without the slightest input by the
student body.
The president of the student senate was informed of the plan early in
the school year, but was asked to keep the matter confidential. The stu-dent
body at large decried this form of "government," while the student
senate lost any sort of credibility.
Recent senate administrations seem to have taken strides toward a
more democratic sort of government; at least no major surprises have
recently been sprung on the students. The Sept. 18 action seems to be a
step away from a participatory government.
Though Bethel College is a business, and should be administered as
such, the student senate exists to facilitate student input to administrative
decisions.
True, the leaders of a government need privacy to discuss delicate and
sensitive issues. Bin these discussions should be held in private, not in
official board meetings where policy decisions and recommendations
are made. An important issue deserves input from the student body,
especially its elected representatives, before it is too late for that input to
have an effect.
We are not trying to paint a picture of a wily, cunning and ruthless
clan of politicians, wraggling high-level decisions behind closed doors in
a smoke-filled room. Hoswell and Stone have done a good job in a
seemingly open and public student senate.
But Bethel needs a more open approach to its decision making, from
the top administrators on down, including the student senate.
Macalester initiates 'Feeding a Hungry World' lecture series
Three internationally renowned
authorities on the issue of world
food production will participate in
a lecture series, "Feeding A Hun-gry
World," at Macalester Col-lege
this fall.
The series, which begins Oct. 2,
will focus on the role of climate on
world food production, ways of
expanding food supply through
the development of new crops,
and the role of the United States
in easing food shortages.
The series of six lectures, spon-sored
by the Macalester College
Hubert H. Humphrey Endowed
Professorship Fund, is free and
open to the public. All of the lec-tures
will be held in the Olin Hall
of Science Auditorium on the
campus, 1600 Grand Ave.
The lecturers are Reid A. Bry-son,
director of the Institute of
Environmental Studies at the Uni-versity
of Wisconsin-Madison,
Richard Evans Schultes, director
of the Botanical Museum of Har-vard
University, and Walter P.
Falcon, director of the Food Re-search
Institute at Stanford
University.
Bryson is one of a handful of
US scientists researching climatic
changes brought about by hu-mans.
He has made frequent na-tional
and international headlines
for his predictions that the world
can probably expect another ice
age within the next few centuries.
Schultes is a world renowned
botanist who spent 12 years of
near-isolation in the Amazon
jungle searching for rare plants.
The world's leading authority on
medicinal and hallucinogenic
plants, he has also served as a con-sultant
to many underdeveloped
nations to help increase their agri-cultural
productivity and export
potential.
Falcon is an internationally
known expert on the economics of
agriculture, particularly in rela-tion
to underdeveloped countries.
He also is a member of the Pre-sidential
Commission on World
Hunger.
He studied the economics of
farming in the underdeveloped ara
of Pakistan. He also has studied
the effects of the so-called "Green
Revolution"—the introduction of
high yield plants—and the impact
of land reform in Third World
countries.
The schedule for the lecture
series is:
Tuesday, October 2, 7:30 p.m.
Desserts of the Future. Reid A.
Bryson, Ph.D.
Thursday, October 4, 7:30 p.m.
Impact of Climatic Change on
World Food Supply. Reid A. Bry-son,
Ph.D.
Tuesday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.
New Flour for Your Daily Bread.
Richard Evans Shultes, Ph.D.
Thursday, November I , 7:30
p.m. How Much Can Uncle Sam
Do?—America's Role in Easing
World Hunger. Richard Evans
Schultes, Ph.D.
Tueday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.
The Tropics: The New Garden of
Eden, Richard Schultes, Ph.D.
Thursday, November 8, 7:30
p.m. Save That Plant—The
"Weed" You Kill Today May be
Your Food Tomorrow. Richard
Evans Schultes, Ph.D.
In addition to these public lec-tures,
the program will also fea-ture
a number of special events to
be scheduled later.
Information on special events
or more information on the lec-ture
series can be obtained by call-ing
647-6221.
Next Week .. .
Homecoming
Bethel's Miss Minnesota candidates
Publicity dept.
Intramurals
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Page 3
by Dan Eckert.
Proposition: If God once used a
"chicken of the sea" like Jonah of
Tarshish in his plans for Nineveh,
then why couldn't he put to use
Bethel's "good tasting tuna" in
his plans for "Charlie?"
Well, he did in the mind of
"Charlie" Retts, who recently
took the bait as Bethel's new dean
of men. Charlie's decision may
not correlate exactly with this
fishy analogy, but his call to Be-thel
seemed strangely similar.
As a former student affairs
associate at Azuza Pacific College
in California, Charlie had little
notion of the open position at
Bethel, or even where Bethel was
on the map.
At a National Student Affairs
convention he briefly met a guy
named Wink Menser, and later
heard of the opening for applica-tions,
of which he sent many, at
Bethel. In the following weeks,
however, Charlie had possible
positions at many other larger
Universities out west, and forgot
about Bethel for the time being.
June came in sunny California
and so did a phone call from
Mack Nettleton, asking if Charlie
would consider an interview soon.
"I had to refuse," said Charlie.
"I had some other jobs available
and knew so little about Bethel."
Six weeks later Bethel got a
phone call, this time from Charlie,
asking if the position was still
open. Something, maybe a still
small voice, convinced him to
look into this Christian school in
far-off Minnesota.
"I was told that there were now
a few candidates who were being
interviewed, but that if I was still a
possible chance for the job I'd get
a call," said Charlie with a re-lieved
look on his face.
He could relax, knowing that if
the Lord wanted him at Bethel
he'd receive the call, otherwise
"one of those guys would most
likely get the job."
Come the end of July, Charlie
received another surprising call
from Mack Nettleton asking if he
could "fly out for an interview as
soon as possible." After some
prayer, and women's intuition
from his wife Laura, Charlie left
Los Angeles, in a step of faith, for
an interview in the land of
Ninev...Minnesota.
After the trip out and the inter-view,
Charlie was offered the
position and accepted the role as
dean of men at Bethel. He says
that he made his decision partly
based upon Bethel's good reputa-tion
and from his experience while
being on campus.
"Most of the students I talked
with were friendly," he explained.
"they seemed more directive in
their lives than many students I
knew."
Charlie's only regret was having
to cope with the Siberian climate
in Minnesota, and the reality of
less good Mexican food. Despite
that, he said, "I knew I could do
the best job here, and so did my
wife."
As dean of men, that job would
let him, handle many responsi-bilities
which he enjoyed doing,
instead of one specialized area.
Among those responsibilities are
some of the following: ISA ad-visor
and student senate advisor,
student counseling services, leader
of orientation at Bethel—that's
Welcome Week—and programs
for academic improvement.
Included in this list, to some
people, is the notion that the main
reason for a dean is so he can pun-ish
those "lifestyle losers" of the
devilish sort.
Charlie hopes he can dispell this
myth among students at Bethel.
After all, how would it look if a
new T.V. series entitled,
"Charlie's Devils" appeared in
the Student Affairs section of the
campus? Also, Charlie assured me
that he won't speak with students
through an intercom either, but
will meet them in person.
by Patty Sutton
"Who I am is in these," Scott
Hafemann commented after
answering several "trivial" ques-tions
concerning his past life while
picking up some pieces of course
material.
Teaching full-time for his first
semester at Bethel, Hafemann is a
member of the Biblical and
Theological Studies Department.
Over the past two years he has
taught three courses here while
studying at Bethel and Luther Se-minaries.
Hafemann graduated from Be-thel
College in 1976 with a concen-tration
in New Testament Studies.
He went on to Fuller Seminary
where he earned an M.A. in his-torical
theology, though some of
his credits were transferred from
Bethel and Luther Seminaries.
Hafemann is a newlywed of six
months. He and his wife, Debrah,
are expecting a baby around Feb.
10. They are living at the Dan
Taylor's on Lake Johanna. Tay-lor,
assistant professor of lan-guage
and literature, is now in
England on a study tour.
Next year the Hafemanns plan a
move to Germany so that Scott
Almost Anything Goes contes-tant
grimaces as she absorbs
the shock of a bursting water
balloon. (Photo by Tom Twin-ing)
can attend the University of Tubi-ngen
to work on his Ph.D. That
will take at least three years.
When he finishes, Hafemann
plans to return to the States and
find a teaching position here. It
doesn't matter to him where he
finally lives because he moved so
much as a child.
"My dad was an executive with
Goodyear so we moved around
quite a bit," he said. He says he
lived mostly in the Midwest and
when asked to pinpoint a home-town
he said he considers Minne-sota
as "a kind of big
hometown."
He agrees with Christopher
Derrick's book "Escape from
Scepticism: Liberal Education as
if Truth Mattered." He doesn't
think "the transfer of notes from
the teacher to the student's note-book"
is a good way to run a
class.
In his "Introduction to Bible"
syllabus Hafemann says, "The
purpose of a liberal-arts education
is ultimately not the transfer of
knowledge from one group of
people to another, but to teach the
student how to pursue that know-ledge
for himself."
Teaching full-time keeps him
busy. He says he doesn't have any
"spare time" since he is usually
preparing for class—something he
enjoys.
When he's not studying for
classes, his favorite activity is
reading. He likes to read inter-pretations
of the New Testament,
Old Testament, history, and
Christian thinkers.
Hafemann also enjoys any
book that "attempts to explain
reality" such as Kant, Aristotle
and C.S. Lewis. He doesn't care
to read about the "great thinkers"
but would rather try to under-stand
them himself.
"I'd rather read Paul than a
commentary on Ephesians," he
said. Hafemann believes a liberal-arts
education is meant to teach a
person how to intelligently
evaluate reality for himself.
Other things he enjoys are his
church involvement, being with
friends, playing racquetball, and
watching the Green Bay Packers.
New Bible prof Hafemann
graduates from 'part-time'
Central Baptist Church
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Page 4 names & faces
`The need is great' for
SMP global outreach
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Don Belton, assistant professor
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Belton, from p. 1
ure to have plastic surgery with
undergoing cancer operations."
The Beltons did feel "very com-fortable,"
however, in the Asian
culture and have a definite desire
to return on a short term basis,
perhaps with the World Health
Organization or UNICEF.
"It is much harder to come
back to your own culture than go
to another culture," Belton recall-ed.
In coming back, you must "re-
P.O. boxes are filled with mail
from various Christian organiza-tions
asking for prayer and finan-cial
support. Chapel speakers talk
about needs in the world, and how
the Christian is responsible to help
the hungry and oppressed. But
what can a Bethel student do
about all this?
In order to answer that question
and put their answer into action,
several faculty members and stu-dents
formed the Christian Disci-pleship
Coalition (CDC) last spr-ing.
Don Postema, who says he
"just provides the impetus" for
CDC, said the coalition has two
main goals.
The first concern of CDC, he
said, is to make the Bethel corn-munity
aware of needs in the
world. The second concern is ac-tion.
Members of the CDC become
aware of needs of organizations
such as Bread for the World,
Amnesty International, and
World Vision. One way they can
put their awareness into action is
by writing letters to congressmen
about food problems overseas,
something that lobbying group
Bread for the World is concerned
about.
They can also write letters to
men in political leadership posi-tions
around the world to discour-age
them from torturing political
prisoners.
Besides becoming aware and
writing letters, Postema said
students can identify with the
poor by leading a simpler lifestyle.
of social work, spent last year on
learn the things you learned when
small, and now no one will teach
you." A feeling of "panic"
strikes when you don't remember
how to correctly cross a street, or
what to do first in a supermarket.
Helping "reenculturate" mis-sionaries
is an interest of Belton's.
The entire experience "confirm-ed
my conviction that there is
something very evil in middle class
values," he said. "Living simply,
having a sense of community, and
"Many students want to simplify
the menus and make the best use
of their resources, such as
clothes."
He said that CDC is not a group
who attempts to have a "holier
than thou" image, or be ve-getarians
and wear rags. Rather,
they are attempting to be "re-sponsible
in light of God's Word
and in community with others,"
Postema said.
"We're not out to incriminate
anyone," he said. "But we will
point the finger of judgement at
institutional practices." The CDC
has suggested an alternative to the
annual All-school Banquet. They
feel that the money spent for
food, etc., seemed "to be an ir-responsible
use of resources."
CDC is also concerned with the
menu in food service, and making
students aware of what they eat.
"We want to sensitize people as
how to best use their resources,"
Postema said.
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sabbatical in India. (Photo by
sharing with others are far more
important."
"My relationship with God has
always been a rational thing," he
continued, "but there were many
events in which there appeared to
be a supernatural intervention—
meeting the right people, finding a
good church, getting our visas.
I've never been as conscious of
that kind of intervention."
As far as Bethel is concerned, a
cross-cultural flavor will be added
in the social work department.
So much of the social work here
is based on "middle class values
and a European heritage," said
Belton. The basic Western theo-ries
taught have to do with solving
problems. "We want to be in con-trol
of our lives," he said. On the
other hand, Eastern theories em-phasize,
"becoming, discovering
our identity and helping a person
become part of a network of rela-tionships."
"We must learn that, when work-ing
with different people, we must
resolve problems in a way comfor-table
to them, rather than to our-selves.
However, in order to do
this, we must first learn from
them."
This will ake a "little more lis-tening,"
and a lot more "muck-ing."
by Suzi Wells
Sharing Jesus Christ with In-dian
alcoholics in Vancouver,
British Columbia brought SMPer
Dave Eckert both joy and frus-tration
this summer.
at
"So many guys' lives are wrap-ped
up in alcohol," he said. Many
only wanted help with alcohol,
not with the deeper problem,
which is the sin in their lives," he
explained.
This summer, Dave, the current
president of Bethel's Student Mis-sionary
Project (SMP) and 34
other students went to all parts of
the world.
Each student had different
responsibilities. Some sang on
tour in the group
"Proclamation," some taught
English, and others worked in of-fices.
Dave worked for North
American Indian Mission. After
seeing beautiful slides and listen-ing
to stories former SMPers told
of British Columbia, he was ex-cited
to see that area.
Instead of working in the
wilderness or on Indian reserves,
though, Dave worked in the city.
"This summer they started an ur-ban
ministry, and they asked for
volunteers."
Dave volunteered because he
had just completed a paper on
skid row alcoholics. He also spent
the previous fall semester in San
Francisco in Westmont's Urban
Studies program.
Working with alcoholics was
often frustrating for Dave. But in
spite of the frustrations, Dave
realized the Lord could use him.
"We were able to plant a seed,"
he said. "We saw that these guys'
salvation was not dependent on
us."
Dave said he and his teammate
realized how great God is. "We
were united as a team in the Word
and in prayer," he said. "I just
scratched the surface in realizing
the power in prayer."
Julie Redenbaugh spent her
summer working in Florida for
Teen Missions. She condensed
and sent out reports to over 50
teams, relating what each of the
teams in all parts of the world,
was doing.
In spite of her handicap (Julie
has cerebral palsy), Julie partici-pated
in part of the Teen Missions
rigorous two-week boot camp.
Although most of the teens slept
in tents, climbed 25 feet of dangling
rope and swung across rivers on
ropes like Tarzan, Julie limited
her activities to climbing "The
Wall." Team members help each
other climb the wall.
"Everything is team oriented,"
Julie explained. "There is a rule:
no pairing off, because they
couldn't maintain team unity."
Julie slept on the floor in the
back of her office during boot
camp and ate in the "jungle" with
the other teens. "We weren't
allowed to have ice milk or hot
water," Julie recalled. "The
teams had to bathe in the river
with their swim suits on."
After boot camp, the teams
departed but Julie stayed to work
in Florida. Julie had her "special"
typewriter sent Jo her to facilitate
typing. (Julie has been typing
since second grade).
Like Dave, Julie had frustrating
times. "I felt really alone when all
the teams left," she said. "I learn-ed
to appreciate home."
"It was challenging for me,"
she added. "I got a glimpse of
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Shelly Nielsen
Phone sales job falls short of glamorous goals I
SMP, cont. from page 4
what the real world is like. At
Bethel, I'm secure. All of my
securities were taken away so I
had to depend on God a lot
more."
Mark Rentz taught English in
Japan this summer in the Scrum-dendo
program, whose emphasis
is on "arm-in-arm evangelism."
Teaching classes in the church
he attended, Mark had 34 pupils.
Eleven were children and 14 were
not Christians. Less than one per-cent
of the Japanese are Chris-tians.
"There is a narrow road to
heaven in Japan," Mark explain-ed,
"not a six-lane highway like in
America. The Japanese have
quality Christianity, not
quantity."
Some reasons more • Japanese
are not Christians is because Bud-dhism,
Shintoism and secularism
are so prevelant there.
"Christianity breaks up the
homogeneity," Mark said. The
Japanese are a very unified group.
Mark spent a lot of time with
his students outside the
classroom. They visited many cul-tural
attractions, such as the Tea
Gardens in Kyoto, and the largest
wooden temple in the world in
Nara. •
Two of Mark's students ac-cepted
Christ, a small miracle in
such a country. Mark also had the
opportunity to share with a Bud-dhist
monk, who even visited
Mark's church.
Mark said he would like to
return to Japan. "The need is so
great," he stressed. The high cost
of living keeps many missionaries
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No bitter combination of words will shut up your griping roommate
faster than "You could be working." Throw this phrase crisply at him
next time he whines, "W.A.R. theme...all night at Perkins...7:15
a.m.bus." Watch revulsion seep into his eyes, silence seal his lips. All
college students share this one ugly memory: the summer job.
Granted, there have always been those few disgusting individuals who
breeze back to school each fall brimming with tales of whirlwind sum-mer
months spent in Tokyo or Bermuda, but they're exceptions. (Ignore
them. Better yet, well up saintly tears of reminiscence and murmur
selflessly, "I worked with Hennepin derelicts all summer—for the
Lord."))
Take my word for it, 99.5% of all Bethelites (statistics not for release)
stagger back to Arden Hills, emotionally unbalanced masses of over-worked
flesh who shriek at the words, "cash register," "double cheese-burger,
medium fries," and "camp counselor." After three months of
"vacation," even two-hour "quizzes" and soggy sloppy joes (@ $.65
ea.) spell utopia.
Trouble starts every summer when employers realize that college
students are only available three months. ("Ohhh," say interviewers
leaning over my shoulder as I write "summer work" on applications.
"Just till August, huh? You've got the wrong form." The second asks
questions more probing: 1) Are you willing to work over 18 hours per
day? 2) Is a lunch break really necessary? 3) When would you be
available to do the manager's housecleaning?
But just how low can a financially insecure collegiate sink? To what
depths will she descend? What catastrophic circumstances could induce
an ordinary Bethel student with a standardized major, 3. + GPA, and
"nice" family embrace that infamous poor-person's summer occupa-tion,
telephone sales?
This summer's vocational goals had been modest. I dreamed of don-ning
trim camp ranger uniform and commuting to Redwood Forest,
there to rove campsites in my shiny jeep, answering adoring tourists'
questions. I also thought lovingly of an assignment setting a struggling
publishing firm on its feet, of exposing captive young minds to the
freedoms of Montessori...
An irritable employment agency representative informed me that no,
there were not any openings for batch tasters at a fudge factory, nor was
there currently a demand for apprentice highwire performers. He curtly
referred me to the local temporary services agency.
It was midsummer now, and after another lunch of dill pickles and
bread crust, I was easy to persuade. Dejectedly, I promised the tem-porary
office I'd accept any job they dug up—anything of course, short
of telephone sales.
My first day in telephone sales dawned drab and humid. I pulled ner-vously
into the parking lot of a decrepit brick building. Lightning rent
the darkened sky in terrible, ominous flashes. A hunched creature with
greying temples, nervously clutching hands, and a black cape waited for
me at the door. His college ring looked new.
"You're the replacement?" He chortled in insane glee as he led me
down a winding, cob-webbed hallway.
"Your phone." He pointed to a dilapidated, nail-scratched machine,
and abruptly leaped upon the desk.
"Phone numbers! Phone numbers! Phone numbers!" he intoned,
flinging a Portland phone book into my suddenly trembling arms. He
stumped toward the door. I was alone—alone with the telephone.
My first call began well, thanks to a tasteful, hand-scrawled script I
speedily composed ("HellothisisShellyNielsenrepresenting—"). Unex-pectedly,
my inquisitive client interrupted the neatly-planned
monologue.
"Who?"
I searched my text frantically for reference to spontaneous queries..
Startled, as I was by this digression from my outline, I made rapid im-promptu
response with the finesse of an experienced telephoner.
"I'm sorry. I'm not qualified to answer that question, but if you'll
give me your full name, weight, and savings account number, I'll have a
sales rep contact you."
There was a short silence followed by a prolonged buzzing noise.
My second would-be customer allowed me time enough to vocalize
my speech, but even after the oozingly sincere, "Oh, that's all right.
Thank you so much anyway," refused to buy. Neither did he gush over
my pleasant phone voice. I hung up on him, insulted and disillusioned.
Outcomes of these calls had to be recorded on information cards, and
I meticulously printed names and addresses in my own style of "News
Gothic" lettering. Not only was the phoning interrupting my creative
calligraphy process, it was damaging my emotional equilibrium. This
reasoning justified my abandoning the calls altogether to instead pro-duce
heaping mounds of artistic info forms.
I was enthusiastically starting my third page of "P"s when my lunatic
trainer appeared at the door, brandishing a machete. His suggestion was
that I return to my dialing. Issuing curses upon summer employment in
general, I spliced together the pieces of telephone cord I had just cut.
Having mastered the superhuman technique of racing through an en-tire
sales pitch without a breath, I practiced the more subtle complexities
of telephonal persuasion.
I developed three distinct voices: The Marilyn Monroe—breathy, ir-resistable,
the Camille—shy and prone to tragic, sudden, and fatal at-tacks
of ill health, and (my last resort) the refuse-me-and-I-cry tone.
None of my innovative defense mechanisms seemed to work any ef-fect
upon the sympathies of my listeners, however. Even after I had
sifted my forms into logical order ("nicest" names on top), I continued
to suffer insults from individuals who resented my purely businesslike
interest in their personal lives. Repeatedly, I endured the humiliation of
stuttering, the trauma of my forgetting the company's name, the
devastation of flat rejection.
None of this preliminary agony, though, could guarantee my emo-tional
survival of a fateful call to "H.G." During our 30-second conver-sation,
he voiced some sincere sentiments of his own heartfelt "Thank
you so very much anyway" failed to move him. I spent the remainder of
the summer shuffling info cards and dialing wrong numbers.
Perhaps learning patience and longsuffering makes three months of
pain worthwhile. Perhaps I'm a better person having sojourned in this
valley of the shadow of death. Perhaps in eight months, I'll again be sta-ble
enough to face another summer job.
But until a shocking portion of fellow students and I can be convinced
that pain is blessed...thank goodness for vacation at Bethel.
Bethel grad Suzie Lane serves as Social Ministries Coordinator.
(Photo by Dan Velie)
Social Ministries position
created for area outreach
by Lori Rydstrom
"I want Bethel students to real-ize
that they have a very important
ministry in the secular world."
That is how Suzie Lane describes
her personal goal as the new So-cial
Ministries Coordinator for
Bethel.
Suzie, a 1978 Bethel graduate,
works with agencies in the Twin
Cities area that need volunteer
workers, gets them in touch with
interested students, and then
follows up to see how it's working
out for both the agency and the
student.
Her job started as a social work
internship, so she was responsible
for creating many aspects of the
program. As the number of stu-dents
involved in volunteer min-istries
grew from 15 in 1976 to 153
in 1979, the need for a full-time
program coordinator arose. The
position is funded by a grant from
the Minneapolis Foundation.
The opportunities that social
ministries offer are directed to-wards
the interest of the students.
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—This is the last weekend of the Faculty Exhibition in the College
Gallery.
—Opening October 1 "Sculpture by Steven Heilmer". The exhi-bition
will run through October 26, with an opening reception Oc-tober
1, 7-9 p.m. in the College Gallery.
—October 1 through November 15 works by photographer Aaron
Siskind at the J. Hunt Galleries, Minneapolis.
MUSIC
—Minnesota Orchestra "Coffee Concert Series" in the Plaza Oc-tober
4. Neville Marriner, conducting.
—The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra "Capital Series" October 6
in O'Shaughnessy Auditorium.
THEATRE
—Both "Endgame" and "The Glass Menagerie" featured this
week at the Guthrie Theatre. Ticket information available at
377-2824.
—"Guys and Dolls"at the Chimera Theatre in St. Paul. Ticket
information available at 222-0792 or Donaldson's.
—"Side by Side by Sondheim" at the Bloomington Civic Theatre
in Normandale Community College. Ends September 29—This is
the last weekend.
—"The Time of Your Life." at the Theatre in the Round in
Minneapolis.
—At the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre: "Camelot," "The Rob-ber
Bridegroom," "I Do I Do," and "The Importance of Being
Earnest." Ticket information available at 934-1525.
—Through November 11 at the Children's Theatre Company,
"Treasure Island."
—"Attack of the Burger Pods," a wide-screen video Extra-vaganza
at Dudley Riggs' ETC. October 4 through 24.
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Page 6 entertainment
Faculty kicks off exhibit,
displays achievements
by Scott Barsuhn
The Fine Arts Faculty exhibi-tion
has traditionally been the
highlight of the year. Kicking off
a new semester this year in the col-lege
gallery and running through
the rest of this weekend is another
excellent showing by our own art
department faculty members.
A walk though the gallery af-fords
the viewer glimpses into the
personalities and people that
make up the department. These
works tell us who these people are,
where they are now in their artistic
endeavors and even say something
about their teaching.
The artists used a variety of ma-terials,
and a wide range of final
pieces are in the display. Some of
the pieces are new endeavors for
the artists. Such growth makes
this show exciting.
So make it a. point to go into the
art gallery. Meet our faculty mem-bers
through the pieces that are on
display.
EXHIBITION
SEPTEMBER 7-28, 1979
FACULTY
BETHEL COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF FINE ARTS
Fine Arts Gallery
3900 Bethel Dr. Arden Hills, MN. 55112
Twin Cities Theater
Local drama productions entice cultural connoisseurs
by Scott Barsuhn
To those of the Bethel com-munity
who may be new to the
Twin Cities area, and to those
who have just returned after sev-eral
months away—good news.
Excellent theatre going oppor-tunities
await you.
Recently opened at the Chimera
Theatre in Saint Paul is that tested
and true old-time musical, "Guys
and Dolls." With songs that you
may remember your mother sing-ing
around the house, this love
story with a tune truly entertains.
The story takes place- in gang-ster-
era Chicago and involves a
somewhat detailed and humorous
look at the lives of a few singing
bad guys.
Nathan Detroit, played by
David Ira Goldstein does a com-mendable
job as he avoids the
marriage issue and chor.us girl,
Miss Adelaide (Cynthia Horton),
and tries to • set up an illegal
gambling operation. Comedy
begins when his "wife-to-be-someday"
informs him that to en-courage
her mother she has told
her that they have been married
for several years and have several
children.
Meanwhile our second leading
man, Sky Masterson, played by
Bob Wills also avoids, and then
falls in love with a woman of re-ligious
convictions, played by
Joan Elizabeth Phalen. An inter-esting
series of events ensues as
this gangster and lady of dignity
get together. All works out in the
end however, and as in most all
musicals, the hero gets his woman
and if a bad guy—as in this
case—turns over a new leaf and
goes straight.
The production is highlighted
by a fine supporting cast and a va-riety
of well done song and dance
numbers. Although dated, and
often times moving at a somewhat
slow pace, this show is still a fun
evening for all guys and dolls, and
will run through October 2.
On a strikingly different note,
for those who appreciate variety,
"The Time of Your Life" at the
Theatre in the Round in Minnea-polis
features serious drama and
interesting character study.
The action takes place in the
late thirties and centers around the
events in a San Francisco honky-tonk
(or for the braver, saloon).
The audience is introduced to
many interesting characters dur-ing
the one full day at this quality
establishment.
Outstanding performances are
given by Hobe Harden, Stephen
Roeser, Randy Lindstrom, John
Smith and Bob Lockman, a
Bethel graduate. Comment is
made about the games that all of
us play, our roles in those games,
and perhaps with some thought,
even why we play them.
Although the action at times
seems unevenly paced, the charac-ters
are well defined and well por-trayed.
This evening is well spent
and will provide for much thought
and reflective conversation at any
interesting Cedar-Riverside
restaurant within walking dis-tance.
It's a show to see, and will
run through October 20.
Mention must also be made that
this is the final weekend of "Side
by Side by Sondheim" at the
Bloomington Civic Theatre. This
musical review is very entertaining
with Bethel Graduate Carole
Anderson stealing the show with
her part in such memorable songs
as "Broadway Baby" and "You
Gotta Get A Gimmick." Tickets
may still be available, and in-cluding
this show in your weekend
guarantees an interesting evening.
New phy. ed. department head and athletic director is George
Henry, who came here from Keene State College in New Hamp-shire.
(Photo by Tom Twining)
New athletic director strives to
find athletes that reflect Bethel
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Coffeehouses offer stage,
by Mari Broman
More than Christian
entertainment, coffeehouses allow
Christian musicians with little fun-ding
to share their talents, said
Timm Rolek of New Horizon cof-feehouse.
Formerly of the group
"Trilogy," Rolek and Al Nygard,
now a Bethel student, began the
Brooklyn Center ministry in
April, 1979.
New Horizon, like the other
Twin City coffeehouses, books a
variety of the 200-plus musical
groups available in *he
area—from blue-grass, ballads
and blues, to country and contem-porary.
The monthly open-stage
nights introduce new talent, and
although most of the groups are
amateur, Rolek said they have had
no "out-to-lunch" musicians.
Located in the renovated base-ment
of Cross of Glory Lutheran
Church, New Horizon started as a
community outreach financed pri-marily
by the church. The snack
bar helps pay some expenses.
Rolek's ministry attempts to
preach Christ through music and
the lives of the staff, rather than
"to push anything on anybody,"
Rolek said. "Subtlety is a much
more effective means than hitting
someone over the head with a
brick," he added.
The staff of the other area cof-feehouses
share this opinion. Lo-gos,
the oldest coffeehouse in the
Twin Cities, has a Bible study and
movies at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays,
but the message on Friday and Sa-turday
comes in the music, with a
short devotional during a break.
Logos also provides a counseling
program.
The suburban location of Gene-sis
House calls for a different
counseling ministry. "We want to
be progressive," said Director
Steve McDill, "and allow people
to make a contribution to their
friends."
The days are passing quickly,
and we have already reached the
end of September. To end the
month with a bang, special activi-ies
have been planned for Friday
night and Saturday!
On Friday, the 28th, everyone is
invited to the "Movies and
Munchies!" Besides eating all the
pizza possible, the movies, "The
Rescuers" and "The Twelve
Chairs," will be shown for your
entertainment. You'll be laughing
all night. Meet us in the gym at
8:00 p.m. and bring $1.00.
Saturday will prove to be really
fun when you join your friends in
spending a day at Valley Fair. The
Genesis also has an optional Bi-ble
study in the middle of the Sa-turday
evening music downstairs
in Crystal Free Church. During
this time they play taped music
upstairs for those who choose not
to participate. "But, approx-imately
50 of the 100-150 people
go to the Bible study," said
McDill.
The Upper Room serves in ano-ther
way. Because it is located on
the 3rd floor of the Soul's Harbor
church, 75% of the people that
come are Christians. "People
should feel comfortable bringing
their non-Christian friends,
though," said staff member Tim
Ralph. The Upper Room offers
food, music, and Christian drama
each Friday.
Jacob's Well, an outreach of
the Catholic Youth Center, is the
"nicest and largest, although the
Genesis House
9300 Rockford Road,
New Hope, MN
533-2397
Sat. 9:00-12:00 p.m.
Jacob's Well
Catholic Youth Center
150 N. Smith
St. Paul, MN
224-2853
Fri. 8:00-11:30 p.m.
Logos
30101/2 Lyndale Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN
825-3672
Fri. and Sat. 8:30-1:00 p.m.
buses will leave at 9:00 a.m. from
NC for those of you who have
previously signed up on the C.C.
bulletin board. If you would really
like to go, but you didn't sign up
in advance, contact the C.C.'s im-mediately!
Tickets will be $6.85 at
the gate. We'll plan to leave Val-ley
Fair at 5:00 p.m. Take a day's
vacation, and have a GREAT
time.
This next week marks the begin-ning
of our Homecoming
Happening! The theme of the
week is, "We're the Royal Pipe
Cleaners!" The Bethel football
team will be playing the Hamline
Pipers on Saturday afternoon.
The week will begin with
announcing of the "Host & Hos-tess"
nominations for the '79-'80
school year in chapel on Monday.
music
least-known" of the area coffee-houses,
according to worker Ron
Morris. As many as 200 people go
through the doors three Fridays a
month to hear the music.
Once a month the coffeehouse
closes while Clyde Digit and Fa-mily,
a professional drama group,
stages a play. In October they will
present "The Velvetine Rabbit."
Other coming productions include
original works "The Princess and
the Players," and "The Juggler of
Notre Dame," in November and
December.
Redeemer Lutheran Church in
Fridley, formerly the location of
the Rising Son coffeehouse, now
holds a Praise Fest every Saturday
night, with a special concert once
a month. Although the coffee-house
is now discontinued, the
fests provide opportunities for
Christians to get together for
prayer, worship and singing.
New Horizon
5940 Ewing Ave. N.
Minneapolis, MN
533-8602
Sat. 8:00-12:00 p.m.
Redeemer Lutheran Church
61 Mississippi Way NE
574-7445
Sat . eve.
Upper Room
Soul's Harbor
230 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN
338-0771
Fri. 8:00-12:00 p.m.
Wednesday is "Hat Day," for
which you must wear the hat of
your choice. There will also be a
Powder Puff FB game on Wed-nesday
in the early evening. Fri-day
is "Dress-Up Day," along
with "The Royal Celebration"
taking place in the evening.
The Royal Celebration includes
the coronation of the new Host &
Hostess and the introduction of
the soccer and football team mem-bers
and cheerleaders. The coron-ation
will be held in the gym at
8:00 p.m. with a bonfire to follow
at 9:00 p.m. The bonfire will in
elude a torch light parade, a pep
rally, fellowship and singing, and
of course, hot chocolate. The
bonfire will be held at "picnic
hill" over by the Seminary.
Of course, the icing on the cake
by Greg Kuntz
Among the new faces at Bethel
this year is George Henry, taking
on the role of athletic director and
skipper of the physical education-al
department.
An articulate and outspoken
man, Henry enjoys working and
getting things done for people.
Henry came to Bethel this sum-mer
from Keene State College in
New Hampshire, where he super-vised
student teachers in physical
education. He had previously
coached football at Owen Valley
High School in Indiana, and was a
guidance counselor and director
of a Young Life Club while com-pleting
his doctorate at Indiana
University.
He is an alumnus of Tarkio
College in Missouri. He also
coached football, basketball and
track while teaching history and
P.E. at Tarkio High. School.
Henry said that he is excited to
is the Keith Green Concert to be
held on Saturday night. No tickets
will be sold, because there will be
a love offering taken, and the con-cert
begins at 8:00 p.m. at the
Minneapolis Auditorium. Buses
be a part of Bethel. "I like the
people here. They are dedicated
and hard working," he said.
He feels much needs to be done
about Bethel athletics. "I will be
working to meet a lot of people to
identify with. There are many who
ant to do something for Bethel
and I want them to know how
they can help the P.E. depart-ment.
I want to continue re-cruiting
athletes who will posi-tively
reflect Bethel," said Henry.
"I'll be meeting people from
other departments to understand
their needs too," he said. "We
want to make fair and responsible
decisions concerning the athletic
program here," he added. "but a
lot of time is needed."
Henry feels that Bethel has a
sense of purpose and that he has a
sense of purpose being here. "I
accept the challenge of leadership
here. Ultimately, we leave things
to the Lord and His leading," he
said.
those of you who need transpor-tation.
Keith Green is an excellent
performer with a genuine love for
God! You won't want to miss this
concert. What a great week. Get
involved and enjoy every minute
Notice: Tryouts for cheerleaders for basketball, hockey and
wrestling will be held on Tuesday evening, Oct.2 in the wrestling
room. A clinic to learn cheers and what is needed for tryouts will
be held tonight from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. also in the wrestling room.
Guys with gymnastic experience or willingness to try are en-courages
to come too!
October festivities include football, coronation
Jon Fredrickson's two goals paced Bethel past Hamline. (Photo by Doug Barkey)
Page 8 sports
Bethel demolishes Scots 31-6
Returning starter Debbie Omath (24) spikes versus St. Paul Bible
College in Bethel's home opener last Monday. The Royals won
15-6, 15-5, 15-10. (Photo by Doug Barkey)
Strong serves highlight
V ball Invitational debut
by Tim Haugen
Rumor had it that Macalester's
43-game losing streak was in jeo-pardy.
Macalester had performed
respectably the week before (re-spectable
is a relative term in this
context), while Bethel was a victim
of big plays as they bowed to St.
Thomas 42-14. Perhaps, as the ru-mor
suggested, Macalester was
finally in a position to prevent
their renown from becoming more
dubious.
Bethel's football team played as
though they had been insulted
that Macalester, the press, or any-body
had the audacity to entertain
a notion that Bethel would be the
opponent that inaugurated a new
losing streak for Macalester by
ending the old one.
Led by Ken Cooper, Jim An-derstrom
and an aggressive de-by
Ellie Abbott
After being defeated by Augs-burg
on Wednesday, 2-0, the Be-thel
soccer team came back and
upended Hamline University 3-1
on Saturday.
On Wednesday Sept. 19, Bethel
traveled to Ft. Snelling Field and
lost to Augsburg 2-0. "We con-trolled
the ball from start to fin-ish,"
said Coach Mark Leigh,
"but just couldn't put it in the
net."
Bethel had several good shots
including an open break by Marc
Maillefer, and other fine shots by
Mark Johnson, Joel Kraakevik,
and senior Doug Hage.
After Augsburg scored their se-cond
goal, the Royals played su-perb
defense and Augsburg didn't
even take the ball past the half
line.
Coach Leigh was pleased with
the team effort against Augsburg
and said, "We have only played
together for two weeks and it
takes some time to get it
together."
fense that intercepted four passes,
the Royals crushed the Scots 31-6.
There would be no renaissance
this week at Bethel's expense.
The Royals asserted themselves
immediately, with Anderstrom or-chestrating
a touchdown drive on
Bethel's intitial possession. The
drive, highlighted by a long pass
from Anderstrom to Cooper, was
culminated on a 13-yard smash by
Dave Kadlec. Paul Lindberg kick-ed
the extra point and Bethel led,
7-0.
On Bethel's second possession
they again marched mechanically
toward a second touchdown.
Again the big play was a long
pass, this time a halfback option
from Tom Klitzke to Cooper. The
touchdown was scored on a two-yard
run by Klitzke, and after
Lindberg's conversion, the
Royal's led 14-0.
Early in the second quarter,
In Saturday's game against
Hamline, Jon "Freddy" Fredrick-son
turned in a strong perfor-mance
for the Royals to beat
Hamline 3-1.
All four goals were scored in the
second half of the game. The first
goal, scored by Fredrickson, was
an indirect free kick which Bethel
had learned and practiced this
past week.
Soon after Bethel scored, Ham-line
tied it up 1-1 from a rebound
on a shot the goalie, Jeff Beck-man,
made a nice save on.
The Royals came back soon af-ter
with a penalty kick made by
Jon Fast to lead Hamline 2-1.
Bethel still had energy though,
and with approximately one min-ute
left in the game Fredrickson
scored again on a throw-in from
the sideline which hit off the goal-ie's
hand and into the net.
Bethel's strong team effort on
Saturday paid off. Their record is
now 2-1 and coach Leigh is "look-ing
forward to the rest of the sea-son."
Bethel meets St. Thomas this
Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
Bethel scored their third touch-down,
this time on a 38-yard
touchdown toss from Anderstrom
to Paul (Oral) Roberts. Roberts
broke a tackle and outran the
defense en route to the score.
Lindberg added the point and
Bethel led 21-0.
Meanwhile, Bethel's defense
was playing excellent football.
The defense set up Bethel's fourth
score on an alert defensive play by
Jeff Bergeson, who intercepted a
pass and ran it back inside the Ma-calester
twenty. Four plays later
Lindberg entered the game and
drilled a 35-yard field goal to
make it 24-0.
The score remained 24-0 until
the fourth quarter when Macal-ester
scored their only points of
the day on a 35 7_yard run by Den-nis
Czech. Bethel answered that
score a few minutes later when
Frank Sanza caught a 13-yard
touchdown strike from Ander-strom,
completing a drive that
featured a well-executed inside re-verse
to Peter Kramka. Lindberg _
kicked the point, making it 31-6.
For Bethel, Ken Cooper was
brilliant. The smooth junior from
Rolling Meadows, Illinois, caught
8 passes for 149 yards. Several of
his receptions were ^ in traffic
where he had to come back to the
ball. Anderstrom again played
well in engineering all four touch-down
drives and throwing two
touchdown passes. The defensive
performance included intercep-tions
by Randy Fredin, Dan
Stockfish, Mike Hoffner, and Jeff
Bergeson.
Bethel's next game is tomorrow
afternoon at Collegeville against
St. John's.
by Laura Woodruff
For the first time, the turnout
for women's volleyball necessita-ted
a roster trimming. Coach
Karyl Frye had to cut eleven
women from the 35 that tried out
for volleyball this fall.
The team is young, with four
freshmen on varsity and seven on
J.V. Sheryl Meyer and Janet
Peterson are the co-captains.
Gracia Dalgren, JoAnn Griffin,
Kris Lindstrom, Cheryl Madson,
Tami Miller, Denise Nygren,
Merry Olmstead, Lori Olsen,
Sonya Olsen, Deb ,.Omath, Janet
Peterson and Joy Sorensen make
up the varsity squad. Coach Frye
has noticed that they need more
experience together since the team
is so young.
They placed sixth in the Bemidji
Invitational on Friday and Satur-day
Sept. 21 and 22, by winning
two matches and losing three.
Bethel defeated St. Thomas 15-8,
18-16, 15-9 and North Dakota
State U.
by Shari Goddard
The Bethel women's cross-country
team finished ninth out of
twelve teams in its first scored
meet of the season, the Lake
Nokomis Royal Invitational, last
Friday.
Ellie Abbott placed first for
Bethel and 34th out of 115 run-ners.
"So far I really like it (cross-country),
I think we'll be a close
team. Denise Egge was the star
last year. This year the top five are
closer together," she said.
Sophomore Wendy Norberg
and junior Brenda Harris, cap-tain,
placed 42nd and 50th respec-tively.
Coach Frye commented, "We
played some good matches." She
was pleased about the weekend
because the team played well even
though it was their first of the sea-son.
Bethel's serving percentage was
over 90 which gave them the high-est
of any team at the invitational.
This shows improvement because
their serving has been weak in the
past.
Cheryl Madson's and Kris
Lindstrom's good back row play
and Lori Olsen's excellent front
row play were noticeable.
On Wednesday, Oct. 3, Bethel
will play St. Mary's at 5:30, and
Winona at 7:30, here. On Oct. 4
they play at St. Theresa at 6:30.
Coach Frye hopes students will
take in all of the homecoming
events and see the Concordia-St.
Paul game on the morning of Oct.
6, here at 9:30, "We hope people
will come watch good volleyball;
we have a good team this year,"
she said.
Illness kept Bethel's fourth,
fifth, and sixth ranked runners
out of this meet. "Despite that we
did well. Runners who had never
run before did well," said Abbott.
The meet had a mixture of Be-thel's
division and upper division
teams. "We ran against some
strong teams," said Coach Shirley
Dawson. "It was a high class
meet."
"I think in our division we'll
probably be third or fourth," she
added. "It'll be really competitive
for the second, third and fourth
places. Number one spot is pretty
much sewn up by St. Olaf."
The Royals run at the Private
College Invitational, hosted by
Macalester, today at 4 p.m.
Fredrickson leads Royals
to 3-1 win over Hamline
Harriers paced by Abbott
to ninth in `high class' meet